We have spent a fascinating few days around Lake Tahoe. This is the highest, largest lake in the USA. We drove right around its 75 mile perimeter enjoying many spectacular views. This one is of Emerald Bay from which we could distinguish at least half a dozen different hues of blue.
I took this photo of Ray as he sat with his back to Emerald Bay. Suddenly he pointed to the sky behind me and said "have you ever seen an effect like that?" I looked up as did other sightseers and we were all surprised with the strange appearance in the sky.
No one had ever seen this effect before. One tourist immediately said "are these aliens coming?" We think it more likely to have been moisture projecting a prismatic effect across part of the sky: but it was not a rainbow. We tried to capture this on film, even using the lens of Ray's sunglasses as a filter. This is the best we could get.
Across the border into Nevada, we were impressed by the size and relative low cost of property! We didn't want to take photos of the houses we looked at as we didn't want to appear to be estate agents. However, on the way to and visiting Washoe Lake we were lucky enough to see a Red Tailed Hawk carrying a snake in its talons (sorry no picture) and six American White Pelicans. Two settled on the lake and I managed to snap them.
It was Midsummer Day and, unbeknowst to us, Lake Tahoe has an annual, official open day (although it is clear that the Lake has been "open" for several hundred thousand years). Consequently, we were stuck in our first American traffic jam for two hours and twenty minutes travelling the final four miles bck to our hotel! Ah well! You can't expect to have a great time all the time, can you?
I took this photo of Ray as he sat with his back to Emerald Bay. Suddenly he pointed to the sky behind me and said "have you ever seen an effect like that?" I looked up as did other sightseers and we were all surprised with the strange appearance in the sky. 
No one had ever seen this effect before. One tourist immediately said "are these aliens coming?" We think it more likely to have been moisture projecting a prismatic effect across part of the sky: but it was not a rainbow. We tried to capture this on film, even using the lens of Ray's sunglasses as a filter. This is the best we could get. 
Across the border into Nevada, we were impressed by the size and relative low cost of property! We didn't want to take photos of the houses we looked at as we didn't want to appear to be estate agents. However, on the way to and visiting Washoe Lake we were lucky enough to see a Red Tailed Hawk carrying a snake in its talons (sorry no picture) and six American White Pelicans. Two settled on the lake and I managed to snap them. 
It was Midsummer Day and, unbeknowst to us, Lake Tahoe has an annual, official open day (although it is clear that the Lake has been "open" for several hundred thousand years). Consequently, we were stuck in our first American traffic jam for two hours and twenty minutes travelling the final four miles bck to our hotel! Ah well! You can't expect to have a great time all the time, can you?
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