Please enjoy these pics from Sandi’s and my recent trip to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Crater Lake is the caldera of ancient mountain volcano that erupted and then collapsed in on itself and filled up with water. It is the deepest lake in the western hemisphere at 1,949 feet deep and the third deepest lake in the world. The lake is five by six miles across.The crater’s rim averages between 6,000 and 7,000 foot in elevation above sea level. It became a national park in 1902.
At that kind of depth (which must be a very radical drop-off from shoreline), does the lake lack fish?
I have to go there one day. Beautiful!
beautiful
The water actually look more blue than in the pictures. I’ve never seen water that blue!
Correct. The water is bluer than the camera can capture. Pretty amazing.