Diaz Lake, California

We have left Bishop behind and are trying to decide whether to get back to Kingman through Death Valley again (because it was so beautiful one way I wonder what we missed coming from the other direction!)  While we're hemming and hawing, we come upon a beautiful little lake and state park. Granpa decides he wants to stop for a potty break.

I, of course, have to read every sign ever created, and I discover that Diaz Lake was created by an earthquake back on March 26, 1872.  That quake caused this area to drop twenty feet! in elevation and it opened up a spring which filled that lowland.  The folks ranching the land very much appreciated that event I can tell ya' for sure!  And we very much appreciate it almost 150 years later because it is truly a sight to behold.

See?  Earthquakes aren't all bad - but I would personally just as soon avoid 'em!