Lake Tahoe

 

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Lake Tahoe is a natural lake surrounded by mountains. It is the second deepest lake in the US and 10th deepest in the world with an average depth of 1000 ft.

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The lake is 22 miles long and 12 miles wide with a shoreline of 72 miles.

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This is Emerald Bay and has the only island on Lake Tahoe. It also contains a California State Park  It contains Emerald Bay, Eagle Falls and Vikingsholm Castle.

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This is one of the beaches along the south shore. The water was warm this year it go up to 70 degrees.  Brrr....

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We found this fire tower up in the mountains over looking the south shore of lake Tahoe.