A Day With Crater Lake - Part 4 (Evening Approaches)

Here is the penultimate group of images, which were all shot on the trusty workhorse cam, my Sony DSC-R1 which I carried all day along with the Canon EOS-60D with Sigma 10-20mm attached...

Garfield Peak gave a great, unobstructed view over the blue waters and crater wall to Mount Thielsen which towered above off in the distance.

As I already mentioned previously, the views from Garfield Peak are nothing short of spectacular, and narrowing it down to this handful or so of shots wasn't an easy task let me tell you.

This little guy may have been small, but by hell he had one massive set of lungs on him - screaming his head off for what I can only assume was his mum or dad...no idea what he is, no doubt someone on here will be able to answer that question.

When I had descended the trail from Garfield Peak I happened upon this collection of Corvette's that had done a road trip together and stopped off at Crater Lake for the day.

Quite ironic considering the amount of time that I spent in the years gone by shooting cars, meets, shows and events for various European car mags...

The dark structure you see sticking out of the face of the crater is known as the Devils Backbone.

It is is a vertical wall of dark andesite which lines the cliff face and measures around 1000 feet long and 50 feet wide near the top.

The rock has been left standing while all around it the surrounding material has been worn away through natural erosion.

Of all the dikes on the walls of Crater Lake, only one, the Devil's Backbone, reaches from the water's edge to the rim. The Devil's Backbone has thin glassy selvages enclosing a paler, holocrystalline, and somewhat vesicular core rich in cristobalite.

The final daytime shot from this upload is from the same spot that I stood at 4.35am the same morning for the pre-dawn shots, looking out head-on to Wizard Island.

The island always stands out thanks to all the different depths of water which surround it, which help to create a variety of colours against the electric blue the rest of the lake offers up.