Its Fantastic! What a View!! The Island At Right Is a Small Cinder Cone That Pushed Up After the Monster Explosion that Created This Huge Crater. The Explosion was in the Exact Middle of What Was Once A Much Higher Volcanic Mountain called Mount Mazama.

…. “ … and see the Crater Lake with a feeling of "Well, there it is," just as the pictures
show. I watch the other tourists, all of whom seem to have out-of-place looks too. I have no resentment at all this, just a feeling that it’s all unreal and that the quality of the lake is smothered by the fact that it’s so pointed to. You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away…”

Crater Lake National Park, OR.

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Upload Date	:	Wed 18 Mar 2009 12:42:27 PM EDT
Capture Date	:	Sun 16 Jun 2002 06:09:04 PM EDT
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