Travel Photography Photos tagged as lakes
Its a Himalayan Lake in the Lahoul & Spiti Region of Himachal Pradesh. There are no known sources of water keeping the Tal (lake) full. There is however an outlet - an outlet that becomes the Chandra River.
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis
Haweswater and the Head of Mardale from the path to High Raise
Haweswater in the English Lakes viewed from the route to High Raise
Arriving to our cabin after a long ride in the canoe...my favorite thing to do there after writing and reading!
Mono Lake (ML) is one of the oldest lakes in the US. It is at least 760,000 years old. Surrounding streams carry minerals into the lake and evaporation removes water, making ML 10% minerals. This is why it is so easy to float in ML.
Tufas are formed when fresh water containing calcium bubble up through carbonate rich lake water. The combination results in calcium carbonate, a whitish limestone that is the basis for tufas.
Although no fish can live in ML, millions of brine shrimp thrive in the alkaline waters. Alkali flies thrive and migratory birds stop to feed on both.
This tufa formation was left high and dry by the receding water level of ML.
One of tufa formations on the South side of ML.
Several swimmers took advantage of the excellent weather while we were visiting ML.
Los Angeles diverted water from ML and this lowered the level. These tufa were left far from the present shoreline.