Episode 3: So much water.......

After being bored of both arid wasteland and disturbing farmland we re-traced our route back west, this time stopping at some points for some views and photo opportunities that we'd spied on the way. Lake Wannapum was the biggest body of water we'd crossed and was absolutely massive. One of Washington's biggest lakes it stretches from horizon to horizon and is probably the biggest lake I've seen. I tried to find out from the Internet how deep it is, one site claimed it's 3.5km which is rubbish (the worlds biggest lake is in Asia and is 1.6km deep), most reasonable claim seems to be 400ft so I'll go with that!

Got some great pictures, it's still very dry everywhere around it. There's no colour to anything other than the lake itself, which forms this kind of massive blue scar on skin coloured land. So little moisture even the plants have become very pale green or yellow... and are so sharp and brittle they really hurt if they scratch you!


Managed to get a very good picture of the Mustang which really looks like a shot from a brochure.. something with an awful strapline like "discover new horizons with a ford Mustaaaaang!".

We passed a sign for the columbia gorge which we felt needed investigation. It's a big natural amphitheatre made from the mountains that lead to the lake, and they throw huge concerts and music events there. Pearl Jam are there on Thursday but we cant get tickets unfortunately. We spotted a huge amount of traffic heading there so we figured we'd check it out. Hoping it'd turn into one of those accidental cool things you end up doing because you were in the right place at the right time. James Taylor in concert doesnt count as one of those things, and thats all we were going to get, so we turned back and fled. Unfortunately Mr willikers was at the wheel and took fleeing all too seriously.. as the law later pointed out.. which brings me to my next post.