I had never heard of this lake until I planned this trip. It is the deepest and cleanest lake in the US. It sits inside the mouth of a volcano that blew its top seven thousand years ago. It has average depth of 1,200 feet and maximum of almost 2,000 feet.
I am not skilled enough with the camera to make it show you how blue the water is here. However it looks in the photo gallery, it is more blue in real life.
Not much up here except a really blue lake and a lot of pine trees. We stopped in Bend after the lake. Nice town that seems to be trying to figure out what it wants to become. After that it was two hours across high desert to Burns. Kids decided on a picnic dinner as there were no restaurants in town that interested them. No exactly an elegant meal, but it allowed us to catch a stellar sunset.
Some pics of all this can be found here: http://smu.gs/NkX4p9
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