The first of two pages of images from Crater Lake National Park
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Crater Lake National Park - Crater Lake, Oregon
September 23, 2011

Golden-mantled ground squirrel
[Close-up side view of a squirrel whose neck area is an orange brown color. It has a white stripe down its back with a dark brown stripe on either side of the white and a rather think tail which is standing upright.]

Interesting vegetation near the lake
[Many plants with what appear to be cream-colored, whispy, full puffballs atop skinny stems. The

Watchman fire lookout station is still in service. It sits at just over 8000 feet elevation.
[Two level fire lookout station with first level made of large stones, stairwell to upper level and railing of upper level made of logs, and the top section nearly all glass.]

View of Crater Lake from Watchman fire lookout station (Lake is 6 miles long by 5 miles wide and was created by rainwater filling a caldera, a volcano remnant.)
[Deep, deep blue lake ringed by crater rock walls with a treed island in it.]

View from atop Watchman fire station (My car is the one parked closest to the bottom of the photo.)
[Pink and grey cliff views at the edge of the deep blue lake. Parking lot half filled with cars is a tthe bottom of the image.]

View from Discovery Point (The white stuff is snow.)
[Grey-pink stone edges of the crater take up most of the photo. At the lowest edge of the crater just before the water are white patches of snow.]

View while hiking Watchman fire station trail
[Framed between evergreens on the left and right is a view of the lake with the crater's edge in the distance.]

Wizard Island is a "bump" in the floor of the caldera.
[Small

This is the top of Wizard Island.
[The top of the mountain is missing and a little depressed so sort of like a shallow bowl. There are a number of white tree trunks upright and lying on the ground as well as scattered growing evergreen, but the ground is mostly bare.]

While the deep blue color of the lake is stunning, the water near the edges is also beautiful.
[The edges of the water near the rocks is a greenish blue and then becomes a black blue at the closest edges. The deeper water is a very pure blue.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver