The leakage? -> No words either. Just disgusting smell (leaking on the outside of the Rv, not inside) and a shop appointment for tomorrow morning...
The way to our destination today was GREEN! Remember how yesterday it was white?
This once was a mountain that had formed of the ashes of a volcano. Every time the volcano would erupt and lava would come out and a mountain would start to form. Think of when you build castles at the beach with soaking wet sand. You let it drip from your fingers and slowly a little mountain starts to form. Got the picture? Now, after many many years, the volcano erupted again so abruptly that it all collapsed, this resulting in the volcano disappearing and instead leaving a huge hole/crater (Crater Lake). The collapsing happened because underneath a volcano there are tons of chambers where the gases of the volcano escape the earth through. Now we have a collapsed volcano and a huge hole. Next, because there's tons of snow in this area, with the years (many of them), the crater got filled with water (snow melting) and now it is a lake.
Once a volcano, then a mountain, then a crater, then a lake. Amazing. The little islands that you see in the water are small inactive volcanoes. The water is crystal clear, the lake is the deepest in the US, one of the 7 deepest in the wold. The views: incredible. Look for the reflection of the sides of the crater in the water.
Look how clear the water is!
This is an inactive volcano.
The following pic, courtesy of Alon Myszne :)
Now the history in pics:
Representation of Crater Lake today.
Pics from the explanatory video.
And finally, the kids today. You are lucky that you can't see the bitching and gowning in the pics :)
"Me first!"
"NO, me first!"
"I don't want to walk anymore!" (But you haven't walked anything yet!)
"I'm hungry!"
"When are we going to the campground?"
"Look! That's so awesome! Actually I like this place!" (Arrrrrg...)
OMG! Did you see that?! K is taller than M!!!!
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