Jennifer Idol, Ocean Artists Society member
Using ocean art to inspire people around the world to a greater awareness of our need to preserve our natural world.
Little Crater Lake
I traveled to Oregon for the 2014 World Domination Summit and decided to also plan a dive while I was visiting. The entire trip was memorable and exciting. Highlights included having the opportunity to speak on stage about my work as The Underwater Designer to 3,000 attendees and visiting Mt. Saint Helens.
Little Crater Lake
In Ft. Hood National Forest, Little Crater Lake is an unexpected clear spring. Near Portland, Oregon and Mt. St. Helens, it's a great stop for a cold and pretty dive.
The texture of the walls were interesting and the water so clear that you wouldn't know you were underwater if there wasn't particulate floating on the surface.
Here, you see the view of the little lake that the trees see. On the water's edge, it looks as if a row of trees is lining up and marching to the center of the lake to join their friends.
I enjoy sharing what it looks like to submerge between the two worlds, above water and below water. The experience of leaving one world behind is freeing and exciting.
I was attending a conference the weekend of my birthday in Portland, Oregon, so I stayed a couple of extra days so that I could dive nearby and also see Mount Saint Helens. I've long wanted to see this curiosity and still am awed that it remains active.
The fiery color of these flowers is all that I can see of the fiery bowels of Mount Saint Helens, though the center is being pushed upward by geologic forces.
When I take photos, especially at sunset, I try not to forget to look all around, and not just at my subject. This is the view I saw when I looked back from Mount Saint Helens.