Photo Gallery - 2012

Beautiful old buildings in the former gold miner town Virginia City

The main street of Virginia City

The sheriff is watching us ;-)

View along the main street

No, that's not today's hotel... ;-)

A casino named after Mark Twain who was working here as a miner and reporter

Another view onto well preservered relicts from gold mining times

View onto the lake at the beach of South Tahoe

Jennifer checks the water

View over the lake towards the mountains of Sierra Nevada

A closer look at the mountains of Sierra Nevada

A kite surfer on the lake

View from the mountains of Sierra Nevada onto the lake

Emerald Bay

At Emerald Bay - the only island of Lake Tahoe

View over Emerald Bay towards the mountains

Another 'water check' in Tahoe Vista

Driving towards Lassen Volcanic NP - no, it wasn't cloudy, the sky was that grey because of the smoke of a huge wildfire

View towards Lassen Peak

Ines and Jennifer in Lassen Volcanic NP