Lake Shasta Drought - On to Corvallis, OR - August 20, 2021
One of our longest days of travel … trying to get up to the Olympic Peninsula … while driving through what feels like “Apocalypse Now”.
We drove by Lake Shasta and were amazed that the “bath tub rings” around the lake had shrunk to near basin-level … houseboats looked moored in the mud … streams flowing into the lake were now dry grass meadows.
The Air Quality Index remained in the “definitely unhealthy” range with the smoke from various Western wildfires …
It is hard to fathom that there are individuals who deny climate change and even harder to imagine the number of ways that life will have to change to mitigate the climate impact … including whether it makes environmental sense to be traveling as we are.
We spent the night in a KOA campground near Corvallis, WA … had a pleasant site with tree cover, a fenced dog park (Coco approved) and clearer air. Tomorrow we push on to our campsite in Chimacum, WA on the Olympic Pennisula.
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