18 December 2013

honeymoon day six.

date: Tuesday, 13 August 2013
final destination: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Merriam Point

Finally, I made it back here.  I was so excited to be back, I'd been waiting the moment I'd left it two years before.  And this time, I was back with the guy I couldn't stop thinking about while I was here!  It's sort of like poetry, really.

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Merriam Point

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Merriam Point


Crater Lake National Park Oregon Merriam Point

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Merriam Point

I don't know how to describe this place to people, and I don't quite know what to say when they ask, "Why do you like Crater Lake so much?"

This place is just out of this world.  It's like nothing I've ever seen before.  Most people will point to a beach they've been to, maybe in the Caribbean somewhere, and say the water is crystal clear and so unbelievably and beautifully blue, and I have to assume that they have never been here.  The water is so gorgeous and pure and straight out of our dreams, it seems fake.  But it is so real.

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Cleetwood Cove GoPro

And so freezing.  This time, I promised myself that I was going to jump in - it was my one regret from the first time that I visited.

There were a lot of people there doing the same.  The rocks form a small cliff but the jump isn't too bad.  It's just the cold that gets you.

Oh, and if you lose the GoPro mounted to your head on impact and it starts to sink to the bottom of the deepest lake in the country.  Thankfully Jon jumped in after me and miraculously recovered it, but it was still one of the most gut-wrenching moments of my life.

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Cleetwood Cove

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Cleetwood Cove

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Cleetwood Cove

Sun, don't burn my white boy!

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Cleetwood Cove Trail

Crater Lake National Park Oregon Cleetwood Cove Trail

(recreating this picture!)

Portraits of the day:

Kristin in HD

Kristin in HD

Kristin in HD

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