Goodenough Springs -- Amistad Reservoir | Back
At this scale, you can see Highway 90 (red double lines on right hand side).
The thin gray lines are tertiary roads. Goodenough Springs is at the base of
the red flag in the bottom-left-hand corner.
Scale : 1000 feet
At this scale, the contours of the immediate area begin to make sense. You
can also see how a tertiary road appears to come very close to the dive site. Again,
the springs is at the base of the red flag, bottom-left-hand corner.
Scale : 250 feet
Here you can see the contours clearly. They are 20 foot separations.
The green line probably represents the 1117 foot lake level. You can see quite
clearly here how close the road appears to comes to the dive site.
On this map, the very end of the road is shown at 1124 feet. The road
at the top of the hill is 1204 feet. The shoreline in these images is at 1122
feet. The current lake level (12/8/2000) is 1076, so Goodenough is
currently a lot closer to shore than indicated on this topo.
This next map is the same as above, but with the buoys marked (via GPS lat/long), which
demonstrates that the "edge of the world" on this part of the map is simply the demarcation between U.S. and Mexico (which
the buoys straddle). This was done as a kind of calibration check... this means that the Topo program is probably being pretty accurate about the lat/long, but that we are working under the GPS plus-or-minus 10 meter limitation. Bottom line, the mark for Goodenough on this map is probably very accurate.
3-D Topo -- exaggerated 8:1 vertical
From this angle, with the relief exaggerated, you can see that the road,
if there really is one, is a pretty rough one, and the drop at the end of
the road down to the shoreline is steep.
