It sounds like the sea and approaches the size of Lake Tahoe.
Its wind-driven waves are unexpectedly silky and warm.
Tulare Lake seems to go on forever on the immense brown and green flat of California’s Central Valley, shimmering like a great blue mirage.
Three months have passed since the lake, which dates to the Ice Age, re-emerged in the basin that once held the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River.
Dammed dry by humans, it has periodically attempted a comeback, though rarely with the force seen after this winter’s storms.
Locations:
Lake Tahoe, Tulare, Central, Mississippi