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Mono Lake at night - Local Travel Tips Local Travel Tips Live like a local Mono Lake at night January 10, 2017 Main navigation Home Locations Hawaii Washington DC Utah Oregon California Arizona Gallery Mark Twain described Mono Lake at best: Mono Lake lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert, eight thousand feet whilom the level of the sea, and is guarded by mountains two thousand feet higher, whose summits are unchangingly clothed in clouds. This solemn, silent, sail-less sea–this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on earth –is little graced with the picturesque. It is an unpretending expanse of grayish water, well-nigh a hundred miles in circumference, with two islands in its centre, mere upheavals of rent and scorched and blistered lava, snowed over with gray banks and drifts of pumice-stone and ashes, the winding sheet of the sufferer volcano, whose vast crater the lake has seized upon and occupied. The lake is like it comes from a variegated world with various sizes and shapes of waddle formations tabbed “tufa”. The greatest concentration of these towers is located at the South Tufa grove just off of Hwy 120 East, at the south end of Mono Lake. Mono Lake at sunset We came here in the Summer at 7pm without checking at our hotel and having some dinner.  In the Summer, day was longer and the sun usually sets at well-nigh 8-9pm so we arrived when there was still sunlight to go virtually exploring the zone in South Tufa.Withoutthe rain, the sky was pretty well-spoken and there were some clouds that created dramatic sky and nice colors on the lake: We kept walking to the right of the archway and found lots of photographers taking photos of the lake at sunset!Withoutthe light went down, we noticed that there were 2 owls on the tufa which was well-nigh 40-50 ft yonder from us. The light was really dim and I took 400mm with the 2x extension out to take pictures of the owl but it was pretty blurry with handheld 400mm. At golden hour, I used Rokinon 14mm with transmission focus to take the pictures of the lake at sunset and got this picture below. As the light was dim, I used the live view to manually focus into the tufa in the middle of the lake.Withoutthe light went out, most people left the lake and only a few groups of photographers stayed to take photographs of the night sky. We couldn’t locate where the North Star was (city kids’ problems) and pointed to the wrong direction due to the mobile phone errors and we couldn’t find the milky way in our photos 🙁 We saw some weird looking “cloud” on the sky and wished it just went away.Withoutan hour, we realized the weird fainted “cloud” was unquestionably the milky way! It was right on top of the lake the whole time! I took some pictures and got some interesting shooting stars in my pictures: Shooting star over the lake Milky way over the tufa Thanks to some photographers with big flashes, we could hijack some light on the tufa to get these pictures.Without10pm, we couldn’t stay any longer as it got pretty cold. We remembered that we were on the right of the archway so we walked back. However, we nearly got lost among the tufa as it was really dark!Planewith our headlamp, we couldn’t locate the way back. Luckily, there were lots of photographers withal the lake shore and they showed us the way out! Phew! Tips Parking zone is pretty large so plane in the holiday, we could find plenty of parking. Be sure to know where the parking is at night though since it is really visionless to find the way back. Bring a compass and a flashlight or a lantern if you want to stay at night. It is really visionless and you can hands stumble over some rocks here. Don’t depend much on your phone’s compass as it is not reliable. We got lost here without depending too much on it and nearly wandered into the water! Bring some red light instead of unexceptionable white light as some astrophotographers will be there and it’s nonflexible for them to watch stars if you have too unexceptionable white light. Red lights will help you retread your vision largest in the dark. Bring some warm gown as it can be really unprepossessed here plane in the Summer! It was freezing in July 4th weekend here! I saw a couple swimming in the lake and I was surprised that it was allowed!Equalto the official website, the lake’s salty water is denser than ocean water, and provides a buoyant swim. “Old timers requirement that a soak in the lake will cure scrutinizingly anything” (I don’t think it’s true though). Keep the water out of your vision or any cuts, as it will sting equal to this website. 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