After a nice cold sleep we woke up to this little guy wandering around our campsite. He seemed to like to get into the bear box and in our food (especially the marshmallows).
Heading back out, we stop to gaze at the lake some more:
Then we went to The Pinnacles. They were pretty cool looking.
We also went on a hike that was just opened last summer to a small waterfall called Plaikni Falls. The hike was very nice and the waterfall was very pretty. There were a lot of flowers and bugs out. And Magnus liked dipping his toes in the water.
Crater Lake again:
Our next stop was outside of the park to see Toketee Falls. The hike had a lot of stairs to go up and down, but the end was worth it:
Back in the park, I hiked up The Watchman, a high point on the caldera rim. It yielded great views of the lake and Wizard Island. Ruth and Magnus waited at the bottom.
When I was at the top we could see each other
This is the panorama from the top.
An added bonus was finally spotting The Old Man of the Lake, a tree that has been floating around up right in the water since at least 1896. He travels around the whole lake and is very hard to see from the rim (I'd been looking for him at each stop). You can take boat tours of the lake that takes you close to the two islands and usually The Old Man as well. He was just to the left of Wizard Island when I saw him (the little white dot in the water).
That was our last stop before heading back to camp. That night we bundled up even more and had a better sleep…
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