ultraoligotrophic

waldo lake is nothing if not ultraoligotrophic!  limnologists said so.  thanks to my kayaking partner and my word-finder, i now can share with you that limnology is the study of "physical phenomena of lakes and fresh waters" and that ultraoligotrophic basically means water so pure and nearly distilled that it is actually too poor in plant nutrients to support a lot of fish.  what it is not poor in is beauty!  because no motors are allowed and the fishing isn't good, what you get is a massive pristine wilderness.  the water is so hard to describe.  depending on the depths, which you can actually see to, my best attempt would be "indigo blue mixed with green with a white prismic quality running through it".  when i put my white padde in, for example, the whiteness intensified, as with bleach. we were self-contained units for three days and two nights, paddling our way from campsite to campsite discovering the as-yet unspoiled piece of nature that even norman rockwell would envy.