One of my dads favoritest places is Crater Lake. I would have to agree with him.  It is a really neat place. The lake is so blue that my dad says that in the old days if you took a picture of the lake, the photo studio that processed the film would think that something went wrong and would make the lake look less blue. Luckily, now we have digital cameras and you don't have to take your film in to be developed or we may never be able to see what the lake really looks like without actually going there.     Well, we have been there. And the lake is really, really blue. I mean it is blue like you can't believe blue. I can understand why someone who had never seen the lake would think that something was wrong with the pictures they took.     Wikipedia says that the water in the lake is the clearest in the world. If you dunk a white 8 inch dinner plate in the lake, you can still see it when it is 120 feet deep. There are no rivers or creeks that flow into or out of Crater Lake. Snow and rain are all that fills the lake and evaporation is all that empties it.  Before about 1900 there were no fish in Crater Lake.  People put fish into it and now there are quite a lot of fish.  You can even go fishing in Crater Lake!     Our adventure started at the very best time to start an adventure, 4:00am.  There were 10 of us in our big red van.   Everyone slept in the van (except for my insomniac dad of course, he was driving!) for the first 3 hours or so of the 5 hour drive.  We stopped for breakfast at a little restaurant in the middle of nowhere.  We had pancakes.  It was pretty good.  We got to the north entrance of the park about 10:00am and drove all the way around the rim of the crater, stopping at just about every place we could to see the view and take pictures.  After a bit of driving around the rim, we go to the Rim Village.  There is an old hotel and restaurant and a gift shop.     My dad said that there was another really cool thing to see at Crater Lake and that not many people knew about it.  We drove down from the rim village a little ways and then turned off onto a side road.  We drove down this  road for a bit and came to a parking area.  We walked down a trail a little ways and came to a canyon.  In the canyon there were some really cool pinnacle looking things.     The sun was starting to go down, so it was time to head for home.  We had a great day adventuring and saw lots of really cool things.  The ride home was long, but I had lots of great memories of one of the coolest places around.