点评:Lake Manly is a pluvial lake located at Badwater Basin inside Death Valley National Park. About a hundred thousand years ago, the lake covered most of Death Valley with a surface area of more than a thousand square kilometers. Nowadays, the lake only forms occasionally after heavy rain but only lasts within Badwater Basin, and most of the time, it’s just a pond.
Last year (August 2023), a rare tropical storm, Hurricane Hilary, hit Southern California and brought heavy rainfall, which started forming the temporary lake. In the following six months, the area continued to fill up with flood runoff from Hurricane Hilary and rainfall from several storms. During that time, the valley floor received enough rainfall so that the temporary Lake Manly became bigger and deeper enough for kayaking.
My wife and I were lucky enough to experience the phenomenon. The view of the temporary Lake Manly was astonishing; it’s hard to imagine how magnificent it was when the lake covered most of Death Valley a hundred thousand years ago.
Although the water level at Badwater has dropped as the review was written, and the lake may not appear again anytime soon, Death Valley is still worth visiting. The landscape is so unique that one might even feel like one is on another planet. If you come to Southern California, it is worth spending a few days there.
翻译:曼利湖是位于死亡谷国家公园内的恶水盆地的一个雨水湖。大约十万年前,这个湖覆盖了死亡谷的大部分地区,水面面积超过一千平方公里。如今,这个湖只在大雨后偶尔形成,但只存在于恶水盆地内,大多数时候,它只是一个池塘。
去年(2023 年 8 月),一场罕见的热带风暴——飓风希拉里袭击了南加州,带来了暴雨,开始形成这个临时湖泊。在接下来的六个月里,该地区继续被飓风希拉里的洪水径流和几场风暴带来的降雨填满。在此期间,谷底得到了足够的降雨,使临时的曼利湖变得更大、更深,足以划皮划艇。
我和我的妻子有幸经历了这一现象。临时的曼利湖的景色令人惊叹;很难想象十万年前当这个湖覆盖了死亡谷的大部分地区时,它有多么壮丽。
虽然在撰写评论时,恶水湖的水位已经下降,而且湖泊可能不会很快再次出现,但死亡谷仍然值得一游。这里的风景非常独特,甚至会让人感觉自己身处另一个星球。如果你来南加州,值得在那里呆上几天。