Sunday, September 14, 2008

Waldo Lake


When we last posted we figured that we had included everything worth mentioning from our vacation. That is until we did more...

Waldo Lake is Oregon's second largest lake, located in the middle of the Cascades at an elevation of about 6500'. Did you know that it is easier to get a sunburn at higher elevations? We didn't think that we would blog about this adventure but the lake was so amazing that we had to at least share some of the pictures.

This will definitely be a destination for future camping trips. Don't plan on taking any fishing gear though. In the 1960s Fish and Wildlife tried to stock the lake with fish which didn't go so well; the fish died. They figured that it was the lack of food that killed the fish, so they tried to stock it with whatever it is fish eat; that died too.

We made the trek out to the lake with Virginia and Margaret who camped out at the lake. Their campsite was amazing and we had a blast paddling around the lake with them.




Kerry, Virginia and Margaret at the campsite


















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See? It's clear!














This is what Kerry sees when she kayaks!











Joe, Kayaking












Kerry, Kayaking

1 comment:

Leah said...

Looks like you did get a little bit of color!
So beautiful... I miss the PNW, we just don't have that stuff out our back door (not that we could do it right now anyways!)