'I love Oregon, mountains that touch the sun..'
Christina Duane
Well, I love Oregon too Christina!
Coastal Oregon is another place that I have given a big build up to to Adrian. He has probably heard me say how beautiful it is at least a hundred times. Well he's just going to have to wait to see for himself because we are crossing the state inland and are leaving the coast until we return from Alaska.
Today we went to Crater Lake. Oh my, where to start? Such wonderfullness!
1. It is a caldera lake caused by an eruption leading to the collapse of the Mount Mazama volcano- 7,700 years ago.
2. It is 6.2 miles across.
3. It is the deepest lake in the US at 1,943ft, the deepest in the western hemisphere and the third deepest in the world. Phew!
4. It holds 4.9 trillion gallons of water.
5. No rivers or creeks flow into the lake. The evaporation is balanced by precipitation. It gets over 500 inches of snow per annum! It is estimated that the water gets replaced every 250 years.
6. There is an old redwood trunk that has been floating around, vertically, for a couple of hundred years known as 'the old man'. The coldness of the water has slowed down decomposition. It is bleached white and you can see it just to the right of the mini volcano in one of my pics It was first photographed over a hundred years ago. It's still bobbing about happily.
7. Wizard Island, the tiny (well, it's all relative) volcano in the caldera is the result of a little eruption 4,700 years ago.
8. No sediment or silt is carried into the lake and so it remains remarkably pure giving it a stunning cobalt colour.
9. It's breathtakingly fabulous and exciting.
10. You need to see it.
Well, I love Oregon too Christina!
Coastal Oregon is another place that I have given a big build up to to Adrian. He has probably heard me say how beautiful it is at least a hundred times. Well he's just going to have to wait to see for himself because we are crossing the state inland and are leaving the coast until we return from Alaska.
Today we went to Crater Lake. Oh my, where to start? Such wonderfullness!
1. It is a caldera lake caused by an eruption leading to the collapse of the Mount Mazama volcano- 7,700 years ago.
2. It is 6.2 miles across.
3. It is the deepest lake in the US at 1,943ft, the deepest in the western hemisphere and the third deepest in the world. Phew!
4. It holds 4.9 trillion gallons of water.
5. No rivers or creeks flow into the lake. The evaporation is balanced by precipitation. It gets over 500 inches of snow per annum! It is estimated that the water gets replaced every 250 years.
6. There is an old redwood trunk that has been floating around, vertically, for a couple of hundred years known as 'the old man'. The coldness of the water has slowed down decomposition. It is bleached white and you can see it just to the right of the mini volcano in one of my pics It was first photographed over a hundred years ago. It's still bobbing about happily.
7. Wizard Island, the tiny (well, it's all relative) volcano in the caldera is the result of a little eruption 4,700 years ago.
8. No sediment or silt is carried into the lake and so it remains remarkably pure giving it a stunning cobalt colour.
9. It's breathtakingly fabulous and exciting.
10. You need to see it.
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