Day 4 - Mono Lake + Mammoth Lakes

The next destination after Lake Tahoe is the Mono Lake, another lake in California believed to have formed at least 760,000 years ago!! Mono Lake is a terminal lake in a watershed fed from melting runoff with no outlet. Dissolved salts in the runoff thus remain in the lake and raise the pH and salt concentration of the lake.

On the way, I captured a lot of cows eating grass and resting on a field.

Some shots captured on our way:

Another lake but not Mono Lake.

A traffice police car!! SLOW DOWN...

Streams

This is the Mono Lake!! Quite a big lake but still smaller than Lake Tahoe.. Haa….

Watch the videos to see the view of Mono Lake

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6630583379399553721

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8480489098433884898

Well… After this, our final destination for the day is Mammoth Lakes. A-Ha… I know your first reaction is lake again??!! No no…. Mammoth Lakes is not a lake. It is a town whereby we will be resting for 1 night. Relax…. I’m also enough of lakes for the day. Hmm…. Didn’t really take many photos in Mammoth Lakes because there’s nothing much to see (it was already 830pm when we reached there). Nevertheless, took some photos of mountains on our way there. What was so interesting about the mountains you must be wondering. Haa… There were various types of mountains with different rock formation seen along our way, from Lake Tahoe to Mono Lake and to Mammoth Lakes. Take a look... Interesting!!

See the white patches on these mountains...

At first we thought it was snow!! So fascinated to see snow during summer. But later on realized it was NOT snow. The white patches are granite!! Haiz… I kept thinking of things which are not very possible (first was the “castle” on Fannette Island, now is the snow). No choice lah… Mountain tortoise is like that. Whahaha….

Well… Our dinner was very simple – Subway!! Because most shops were closed by the time we reached Mammoth Lakes. So just have whatever that was available. Today was quite a long day so after dinner, it was time for us to rest at Motel 6. Tomorrow will even be more tiring - Tour Yosemite National Park, so must really have a good rest. See you in Yosemite adventures!