This morning started out quite nicely, but got increasingly smoky as the day went on. (Notice how you can't see across the crater in the picture?) First stop was the visitors center to get our Junior Ranger books. Then the boys attended a ranger talk while I sat with Taiko - he wasn't allowed down the trail to the place where the ranger talk was. So, we wandered around the top, sat in the shade, and Taiko basked in the admiration of the other visitors. There were many other dogs there, but Taiko was definitely getting more than his fair share of attention. It reminded me of my first trip to the Grand Canyon a number of years ago when Benton (Taiko's great grand father) got more pictures taken of him by the Japanese tourists than the Canyon!
After two ranger talks, and working out the pages in the book, the boys were awarded their Crater Lake National Park Junior Ranger patches. It joins the patch they each earned in Yosemite in May. They're looking forward to earning more patches at the other National Parks we'll visit.
Ask them sometime about Crater Lake, they'll tell you all about how it was formed, and the importance it plays as an environmental benchmark.
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