Painted view looking south from Terranea cove to Portuguese Bend

Portuguese Bend south of LA.

Washoe Zephyr

Zephyr Cove is named after Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind. Mark Twain and Dan De Quille both wrote about the strong west winds that blow over Lake Tahoe and on into Nevada, called the “Washoe Zephyr.”

Zephyr Cove boulder and Bonsai setting

Boys on the boulders at Zephyr Cove in Lake Tahoe

THE BLUE AND AQUAS OF THE LAKE

The blue of the lake ...

“A noble sheet of blue water,” Mark Twain wrote of Lake Tahoe in 1871, “As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.”