2007/03/06

 

Bottomless Lakes?

Just outside of Roswell, New Mexico is the Bottomless Lakes State Park where we are staying for a couple of nights. From the campsite brochure “The Bottomless Lakes are a chain of eight lakes that are actually sinkholes that range for 17 to 90 feet deep. They were formed when circulating water dissolved salt & gypsum deposits to form subterranean caverns. Eventually, the roofs of the caverns collapsed from their own weight. Sinkholes resulted & soon filled with water and formed the existing lakes.” A lot of the things at the state park are white (wooden posts, the ground, etc. ) .... no not snow but salt and gypsum deposits. Some of the lakes will support fish but some won’t because the concentration of salt is too high. We were hoping to find birds here but the winter residents (cranes, geese, etc.) have left and the spring birds haven’t arrived.


A view as we drove towards Roswell.


Zaph made a new friend --- Sassy, a 3 year old golden retriever. Zaph paused during a game of tug to smile for the camera.


One of the bottomless lakes.


A sink hole.


Another bottomless lake.

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