Five-colored pool
As I was looking through photos of Jiuzhaigou National Park in China’s Sichuan Province, my eyes locked on the colors of this tiny pool, named Wǔcǎi Chí or the five-colored pool. The Park sits within Jiuzhaigou valley, a valley on the eastern side of Tibet with portions that rise in elevation to over 4800 meters. The area varies between dry glaciers at its highest elevations through a variety of forests and lakes at low elevations. Many of the lakes are the kind of classic features found in recently-glaciated country, filled by clear waters from the melting of ice and held in place by dams made of moraines and avalanches as the glaciers retreated.
Five-colored pool is just one of the many lakes in this park and just one of the many features worth viewing, but the combination of changing depths, cobbles at the bottom, different sunlight conditions as the day goes on, and changing water colors are making photos of it a treat for the eyes.
-JBB