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Last summer I glimpsed one of the most beautiful sights I had ever laid my eyes upon. The sight I saw was nothing too out of the ordinary for a picture, but to actually witness the beauty of it in person is amazing. It occurred while I was in Oregon, at a place called Crater Lake. Crater Lake is an erupted volcano which has a lake formed in its crater, as its name implies I was only at the lake because my family had taken a brief pause from the rest of our lives for a long needed vacation, but the fresh mountain air gave me some new insights that I now value greatly.
The aforementioned glimpse consisted of many visually appealing phenomenon.
Reaching out from the water, blue light bathed the mountainsides with a subtle blue glow. This glow was very luminescent, and it almost reminded me of the glow of a neon sign. The main difference between the two was the lake’s glow was subtler, but it was still more majestic than a neon sign for it was a naturally occurring phenomenon. The water itself was miraculously blue and calm. The tour guide had explained to us that due to a lack of bacteria in the lake (bacteria is unable to inhabit a lake at such a high elevation because the water is too cold to support its life). This, combined with the lake’s great depth, permits the lake to create blue light at its bottom and for it to be able to shine through the water all the way back up to the surface. As a single tour boat roamed the lake, the waves it created flowed out from it disturbing the calm. These waves stretched across the massive lake, for there were no other waves to counter them.
The size of the lake was astounding too; the entire crater of a mountain was engulfed with water to become a lake. It was not too shabby of a mountain too begin with either, if it still had its top it very well would tower over its surroundings as if it were a giant and the other seemingly tall peaks were mere dwarfs. In fact, the erupted volcano was so big, that in the lake there was a volcano all of its own, Wizard Island.
Wizard Island stuck out from the rest of the lake with its dome contour. In the top of it, a crater all of its own had formed.
