SUN TRAVEL STORY: 5-STAR HOUSEBOATING ON LAKE POWELL
Vacationing Large in a Five Star Houseboat Canadian boats let Lake Powell visitors put on the Ritz . First class on Lake Powell Posh pampering on board Canadian-built luxury houseboats By STEPHEN WEIR, TORONTO SUN Sun, June 4 / 06 If the plush deep padding of the houseboat sofa wasn't already absorbing your Speedo covered derriere; you'd probably be on your keester anyway. The shocking beauty of the sword-edge cliffs that line the famous Utah/Arizona watercourse will stagger even the most jaded holiday boater. There are places along the Lake Powell Canyon system that are so narrow you can lean out from either side of the upper deck of the rented five-star houseboat and touch the smooth 200 metre tall walls. So abrupt are the sandstone cliffs it is only at noon that the sun will light the flybridge of your $10,000 US a-week-floating condo. A super-sized Bald Eagle lazily circles above in the scorching desert updrafts; hungrily eyeing the Canadian tourists stewing i