Again Bradley and I expertly set up camp breaking our personal
record. Probably not breaking the world record but we are still working towards being the fastest camp setter-uppers. Being the only national park in Oregon it was a must for our road trip adventure. I was feeling pretty bad but we managed to have a really nice time here. We camped near the south entrance and the sidewalk was way cute – it had animal tracks in the cement. There were bear tracks as well as deer and little tiny feet of some kind.
We drove to the Rim Village, which is obviously on the rim of the lake. From the buildings here there was a pathway that led to a walk alongside the lake. Seeing as how the lake was created by a crater and filled over many years of snowmelt etc the cliffs were pretty steep. Brad just informed me that it took 65 hundred years, or something like that, to have enough snowmelt and rainfall to fill it up. He also just said this would be the only way to fill up a crater hole unless a giant bear peed.
I think Brad is delirious and needs to sleep now. Considering this lake is an independent system with no rivers flowing in or leaving there were no native species of fish but many have been introduced throughout time. Only three of these introduced species survived and are still swimming around in the lake today. I tried to imagine what it must have been like to unknowingly stumble across this lake a long time ago. It would be too bad if you were really hungry and out of food because when you tried to fish or spear fish there would be none. You would have no way of knowing that there were not fish in the lake nat
urally. It would be a really sad day for the ancient hunter. Although it was early and a bit overcast the water was still pretty intense and blue. I can hardly imagine how the water would have looked on a clear sky blue day. I thought this lake was beautiful even though we did not see it at its most splendid. There was one volcano island in the lake that we were able to get awesome views of. The name of this wonderful island is Wizard Island. If we had more time we talked about going over the shallow portion of the lake and over to Wizard Island. There are hiking trails up to the top of this small volcanic peak. So instead we settled for me acting like a giant that is plugging the volcano with one finger. We were able to stop at a few more places where there were nice views of th
e lake. One of these was elevated even more so it was like looking down on the lake. Just like when you look down from the top of a building you can see so far. We were able to almost take in the entire lake in one frame from this view. We were able to see the much smaller island called phantom ship. It was so foggy today that it would have been easy to mistake this island for a ship. It would be a strange place to have a big ship like that because nothing runs in our out of this lake. I thought that this was really neat about Crater Lake because it is a complete system all to itself and the water is really pure. This lake was blue – and it was neat.
record. Probably not breaking the world record but we are still working towards being the fastest camp setter-uppers. Being the only national park in Oregon it was a must for our road trip adventure. I was feeling pretty bad but we managed to have a really nice time here. We camped near the south entrance and the sidewalk was way cute – it had animal tracks in the cement. There were bear tracks as well as deer and little tiny feet of some kind. 
We drove to the Rim Village, which is obviously on the rim of the lake. From the buildings here there was a pathway that led to a walk alongside the lake. Seeing as how the lake was created by a crater and filled over many years of snowmelt etc the cliffs were pretty steep. Brad just informed me that it took 65 hundred years, or something like that, to have enough snowmelt and rainfall to fill it up. He also just said this would be the only way to fill up a crater hole unless a giant bear peed.
I think Brad is delirious and needs to sleep now. Considering this lake is an independent system with no rivers flowing in or leaving there were no native species of fish but many have been introduced throughout time. Only three of these introduced species survived and are still swimming around in the lake today. I tried to imagine what it must have been like to unknowingly stumble across this lake a long time ago. It would be too bad if you were really hungry and out of food because when you tried to fish or spear fish there would be none. You would have no way of knowing that there were not fish in the lake nat
urally. It would be a really sad day for the ancient hunter. Although it was early and a bit overcast the water was still pretty intense and blue. I can hardly imagine how the water would have looked on a clear sky blue day. I thought this lake was beautiful even though we did not see it at its most splendid. There was one volcano island in the lake that we were able to get awesome views of. The name of this wonderful island is Wizard Island. If we had more time we talked about going over the shallow portion of the lake and over to Wizard Island. There are hiking trails up to the top of this small volcanic peak. So instead we settled for me acting like a giant that is plugging the volcano with one finger. We were able to stop at a few more places where there were nice views of th
e lake. One of these was elevated even more so it was like looking down on the lake. Just like when you look down from the top of a building you can see so far. We were able to almost take in the entire lake in one frame from this view. We were able to see the much smaller island called phantom ship. It was so foggy today that it would have been easy to mistake this island for a ship. It would be a strange place to have a big ship like that because nothing runs in our out of this lake. I thought that this was really neat about Crater Lake because it is a complete system all to itself and the water is really pure. This lake was blue – and it was neat.
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