Beaver Lake cruise a delightful time

Photo by Xyta Lucas The Red Bluffs on Beaver Lake was one of the many scenic spots visited during the Sunset Cruise on Beaver Lake offered by Hobbs State Park.
Photo by Xyta Lucas The Red Bluffs on Beaver Lake was one of the many scenic spots visited during the Sunset Cruise on Beaver Lake offered by Hobbs State Park.

Staff Report

Several people from Bella Vista had a delightful time last week on the sunset cruise that Hobbs State Park is offering this fall on Beaver Lake.

The cruises are on Thursday and Sunday evenings.

"We boarded the 20-passenger boat at 5 p.m. and headed out a few minutes later for a one-and-a-half-hour cruise all over the lake," Xyta Lucas said. "The host on the cruise was very knowledgeable about the history and geology of the lake, and we all learned something we didn't know -- such as the Pigeon Roost area is named after the passenger pigeon that used to flock to the area by the thousands but became extinct by 1914."

Lucas' group included Jim Werner, her mother-in-law, Wilda Werner, and her sister-in-law, Cari Goetsch of Overland Park, Kan. Wilda Werner moved to Bella Vista three weeks ago.

Other Bella Vistans on the cruise were Marta Lou Chandler and Jerolyn Cross.

"The boat took us up close to Red Bluffs, where we could see the cliff-swallow nests hanging on the vertical cliffs," Lucas said. "By the time we got back to shore just as the sun was setting, we agreed the tour was a bargain at $10!"

Information about the park's sunset cruises is on Page 10B of today's Weekly Vista.

General News on 09/28/2016