On the way home from visiting Sara and family we took a couple days to make a stop in Medford Oregon.  Sometimes we stay one night there to breakup the 13 hour drive into two sections but this time we spent two nights so we could spend a day at Crater Lake National Park.  Crater Lake was formed by a volcano and  is the deepest lake in the United States.  It has not water inflow or outflow so the water in the lake is only from the local snow fall.  It is one of the clearest water bodies anywhere and the deep blue from the depth of the water.  The picture above is a merge of 3 photos.  Click on it to see it enlarged.

This was our first time to visit this National Park.  It was less than a two hour drive from Medford.  We arrived in the morning and tooks some pictures from the area near the Crater Lake Lodge.  Ann was shooting with her Nikon D70 and Franz with his Nikon D300.

We then got on our bikes and started to bike around the lake.  Franz carried the Nikon D70 on a backpack so we could take some photos from different locations.

Ann told Franz to go jump in the lake!

But this was as close as Ann would get to the ledge.

We ended up going half way around the lake but had to turn back because the rim drive road was closed at some point due to snow.  Can you believe, snow in July!

On the drive back to Medford we stopped at the Rouge gorge to take a few more pictures.  It is hard to capture water falls.

We had a great time and hope to visit Crater Lake National Park again.  You can see all our pictures at our SmugMug Gallery by clicking here .

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