Paulina Lake

Looking east, with some resting mallards on the shore! I didn't want to disturb them so I have a lot of beach in the foreground. Paulina Lake is the western of the two lakes in Newberry Crater, the caldera in Newberry volcano outside Bend, Oregon. (The eastern lake is, sensibly if unoriginally, named East Lake.) The mountains in the back on the left are the caldera walls--it's a _big_ crater. The skylined mountain on the right is from subsequent eruptions, making up a so-called "resurgent dome" within the caldera itself. The air is actually smoky, not misty, from all the wildfires in Oregon when we were there. The inset shows a slightly different view from off the dock to the right.