Forth Lake Dam - Nanaimo

 If you time it right and all the gates are open you can see so much up Nanaimo Lakes area!

We just so happened to time it right a couple weeks ago and made it all the way to Forth Lake Dam!

I wish I had of taken a picture from the top of the dam so you could see the lake but I am still working on the remembering to take pictures thing.

This is the view from the bottom of the dam.

It's no fancy Hover Dam I can tell you that. It looks much more like a big pile of rocks from this side. It is a little more concretey on the other side.

You know how much I love open doors to dark places, so this was exciting to see!

I was so excited!! I was convinced I was going into this big dam and there would be so much cool stuff to see!! It was still cool but much MUCH smaller than I was hoping for.

It was just a little room with a big rusty pipe. 

After a quick look around we had to get back as the gate was going to be closing soon. On the way back I saw a little shack in the woods and was convince it was an old wooden outhouse. We decided to stop and double check.

Right looks like and outhouse! Well you and me are wrong. We opened the door and inside was a big hole that was a pipe with a ladder that went down like 10 feet into some water. There was also a metal chain that went down in the water. It was weird. I was happy when the guy who looks after making sure everyone is out before he locks the gate saw us and said hi. He said it was some kind of testing thing for the government. They come can check on it every once and a while.