The lakes

 

                         

                           

I am lucky to live last 20 years in a city with many lakes. Whatever direction I take, I can see some: Union, Washington, Sammamish, Green, Bitter and many others - 25 in Seattle and around the city.

We love the lakes and this year on our way from Arizona to Washington State we stopped at Lake Tahoe, Crater and Klamath lakes.  At this season all surrounding resorts are packed with tourists and vacationers.

What attracts everybody there? Is the quite, blue or green water, or the boats and other water activities?

Maybe are the beautiful sunrises and sunsets?  Or the mirror images in the water of the closest mountains, trees or buildings. What about the cotton-white clouds drifting across robin-egg-blue skies over the lakes?

Of course there is one thing that joins seas, lakes and rivers – the water, the unique thing on the Earth that make our live.

One telling Sais “One bird doesn’t bring The Spring”: Yes it’s not; the beauty of the lakes depends also of the environment. It comes with the mountains, with the flowers and fragrance, with grin forests and meadows.

I am glad, that we have visited first Lake Tahoe. Crater Lake is special experience, it is beautiful, but around Lake Tahoe there are a lot of things to see and to do. We started with the mountain trip, because we wanted to see first the entire valley. By the way, there are a lot of high peaks around; at least 10 of them are over 10,000 foot.
 

Our gondola reached Unmet Peak and the view from there is a dream. We enjoy the dark-blue mountains on the horizon, than the slowly change of the color in 2-3 tonalities of green. Finally, right under all this beauty we saw the blue shiny water. Watching this gigantic picture, I had the feeling that the sky has spread his blue hands willing to protect this magic moment for ever.

                                                    

 

                                              

                                                                        

                     

                                                                       

                                                               

The dream ended at the moment when we have left the second stop of the gondola Heavenly. It is always lake this, if humans come in the mountain with all their technique, wires and noise, Mother Nature cries. From here start 6 chairs to the ski-runs on the top of the mountain.

 

                                                                 

                                     

 There  are two zips for the brave visitors.  Hum, the Blue Streak Zip is 3,300- foot-long and you glide over the forest with 50 miles per hour, what about this pleasure? Well, do first Hot Shot Zip, it is only 1000 –foot-long and from there you can see the Mt. Taller and Pyramid Peak. We also “produced” less adrenaline here, and our friends on the 2 parallel lines kept us company.
          

O yes, the second big experience is Emerald State Park. Fannett Island is the only one in the Lake. Long ago the majesty of this Island attracted the Washoe tribe, who had done here their annual sacred rituals.

The Yacht Sightseeing Cruse skirts the shores of the Emerald Bay and Eagle Falls. The Vikingsholom Castel, build from Mrs. Lora Josephine Knight, now Coffee House, gives captivating feel of its unique history.

We lost the chance to visit this park, but the view from I-89 was amassing. No wander, why English Capitan Dick Barter had chosen to live here 10 years from 1863th. He even wanted to be buried here, but the deadly storm found him in another place.

Maybe the majesty of the glacier-carved Emerald Bay attracts the Bold Eagles here, before they return to the mountains. We are not eagles, but we wish to fly with hot air balloon. This would be the best experience , but we skipped this pleasure for now…