Ngaruawahia High School Yearbooks 2010-2012 Kapa Haka Tour of Western USA 1998 | Page 113

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The Hoover dam was quite a spectacle, built
across the narrowest part of Grand Canyon with
Lake Mead stretching out behind.
The main highway between the
neighbouring Nevada and Arizona states passes
across the dam and causes the heavy traffic to
slow to a 5 kph crawl as it winds down the canyon
wall and across the massive dam. The group heard

of talk of the future possibility of a more direct
road across the Canyon.
The group assembled for photos atop the
parking building and then headed into the
entrance tunnel to wait in the foyer for their $8
per head tour.
Several hundred other tourists were waiting
their turn also in the underground assembly area.

On the way to Hoover Dam, just east of Boulder City (about 10-15 minutes drive). Part of Lake Mead can be seen to the
left and (scary thought) it is Robyn Roa who is driving the pupil-laden vehicle ahead!

Leaning over the rail of the multi-floored parking building and looking over to Hoover Dam. The traffic travelling between
the states of Arizona and Nevada crosses the top of this dam at a snails pace.