Sapphire Blue Crater Lake
by David Millenheft
Title
Sapphire Blue Crater Lake
Artist
David Millenheft
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
No other lake has the sapphire blue color that Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park does. Located in southern Oregon, United States. This phenomenon occurs in part because the freshwater lake is incredibly deep - almost 2,000 feet! Once a towering volcano that collapsed in an ancient eruption, Crater Lake is now the deepest lake in the U.S., fed only from rainfall, snow melt and the 44 feet of snow it receives on average every year. The caldera lake is filled with approximately 4.6 trillion gallons of water!
Crater Lake has mainly two seasons: a short but breathtaking flower-filled summer and eight months of harsh, unforgiving winter with ice-cold winds and prodigious snowfall. Total snowfall for a season can be as much as 50 feet, In spite of that, the lake itself almost never freezes over; it is so deep that the heat stored in summer rises slowly, or is stirred to the top by wind, and keeps the lake surface just above freezing.
With its sheer cliffs, deep, clear, sapphire-blue water and scenic islands, Crater Lake is a gem sparkling on the crown of the Cascades.
Crater Lake is out of the way but well worth the added time to your trip.
Uploaded
November 4th, 2013
Statistics
Viewed 609 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 03/26/2024 at 7:42 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments (7)
Sharon Elliott
Beautifully captured....this is one of my favorite places to visit. SE f
David Millenheft replied:
Thank you Sharon. The #vivid #blue of #craterlake is truly amazing. Enjoy your day.
Robert Bales
What a beautiful presentation and congrats for being selected on the feature pages!! v/f/t