Vacation Part Two
It seems I'm running rather a backlog at the moment, with no time to tell you of all the fun we had over the holiday weekend. Instead, however, part two of our road trip is illustrated below...
Day two took us from Ashland to Crater Lake, a wonder of the world, no less. You're looking into the collapsed rim of a vocano (called a caldera, geography fans). And yes, the water really is that blue - no photoshop necessary.
Rachel looks out over Wizard Island. Normally by June it's possible to take a boat trip out there, but sadly snow still blocked the Northern rim road this year.
C'est trés joli, n'est pas?
Rachel's ickle friend by the lake.
From the lake we drove down to Klamath Falls for the night. Like a lot of communities in Southern Oregon, it seems rather quiet for it's size, the glory days of chopping down everything in sight for a quick buck now sadly behind us. Still, they have a lovely spanking new courthouse, almost cerainly paid for in tourist speeding-ticket dollars if Rachel's experience is anything to go by. A gross injustice, she remarked. 84 in a 55 zone was how the state trooper put it, as I recall; fine doubled for a construction zone. $240, ker-ching!
Some deer spotted by the lava beds national monument in Northern California, Day Three. There are a great number of lava-tube caves around here for the keen sperlunker(?) but we were a bit short on time unfortunately.
What a loverley pair etc! The cones of the Ponderosa Pine, exhibited here by our Jason, are indeed quite enormous.
Rachel's expression says it all: boiling sulphurous gases emerging spontaneously from the earth, whilst a geological curiousity, are nevertheless somewhat unpleasant.
Snow, in June! Why yes, at Lassen Volcanic National Park.
Still to come in future episodes: the giant redwoods (for me, the highlight of the trip!) and tales of the Southern Oregon Coast.
Day two took us from Ashland to Crater Lake, a wonder of the world, no less. You're looking into the collapsed rim of a vocano (called a caldera, geography fans). And yes, the water really is that blue - no photoshop necessary.
Rachel looks out over Wizard Island. Normally by June it's possible to take a boat trip out there, but sadly snow still blocked the Northern rim road this year.
C'est trés joli, n'est pas?
Rachel's ickle friend by the lake.
From the lake we drove down to Klamath Falls for the night. Like a lot of communities in Southern Oregon, it seems rather quiet for it's size, the glory days of chopping down everything in sight for a quick buck now sadly behind us. Still, they have a lovely spanking new courthouse, almost cerainly paid for in tourist speeding-ticket dollars if Rachel's experience is anything to go by. A gross injustice, she remarked. 84 in a 55 zone was how the state trooper put it, as I recall; fine doubled for a construction zone. $240, ker-ching!
Some deer spotted by the lava beds national monument in Northern California, Day Three. There are a great number of lava-tube caves around here for the keen sperlunker(?) but we were a bit short on time unfortunately.
What a loverley pair etc! The cones of the Ponderosa Pine, exhibited here by our Jason, are indeed quite enormous.
Rachel's expression says it all: boiling sulphurous gases emerging spontaneously from the earth, whilst a geological curiousity, are nevertheless somewhat unpleasant.
Snow, in June! Why yes, at Lassen Volcanic National Park.
Still to come in future episodes: the giant redwoods (for me, the highlight of the trip!) and tales of the Southern Oregon Coast.
posted by Richard Tammar at 9:03 PM
1 Comments:
That place looks fantastic. Sure beats the hell of the scenery in Lewes! ;-)
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