Mar 1st, 2017: ISA LAKE

[xoxoxoBruce]

I SA LAKE. You are SA Lake? No, IS A LAKE. I know you is a Lake, the water and lily pads give it away.



ISA Lake is special although it doesn’t look like it. It’s high in the mountains, but so are many others. It has no inlet and is fed
by snow melt and maybe a few springs, but that’s not uncommon either. It has two exits, but so do others around the world.
It’s in Yellowstone National Park, but Yellowstone has a lot of lakes.



At 8200 ft(2.5km), ISA Lake straddles the North American Continental divide.
The east outlet leads into the Lewis River to the Snake and Columbia Rivers and then into the Pacific Ocean.
The west outlet leads to the Firehole River then the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and into the Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean.

Wait a damn minute now, the EAST outlet goes to the Pacific, and the WEST outlet goes to the Atlantic?
Yes, the lake’s outflow is counterintuitive. Some call it the Two-Ocean Lake.
What make ISA Lake special is it’s the only natural lake in the world to drain to two different oceans.

I've seen it and without knowing how unique it is, it's not much to look at.

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