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One summer there was a "whale" swimming here... 😀

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For those curious, this photo was taken some years ago - with my former Pentax K200D camera (with its CCD sensor) of Boiling Springs Lake - a lake which is literally so hot that putting your hand it will cause severe burns and falling it might kill you. The lake is located at Mt. Lassen National Volcanic Park - a few hours northeast of San Francisco and Sacramento (in California) - and the southernmost of the Cascades chain of volcanoes which goes all the way up the West Coast to Alaska.

Lassen is still a semi-active volcano - its last eruption was approximately 100 years ago - and is a beautiful and fascinating living laboratory of underground geothermal effects - including 'mud pots', insanely hot boiling mud springs, and this 'boiling lake' among others. In this photo, the main part of the lake itself, with all the magically rising steam, is in the background - in the foreground are some tiny semi-isolated mud springs which form part of the lake, but also have their own network of beautiful, and dangerously hot (for humans, at least) tiny bubbling mud springs and mud pots.

For those who have never been, it's worth a trip if you possibly can go someday. Lassen is one of the magical spots of the globe, in my opinion.
 
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