Amazing Lake Tahoe

I’m fortunate to visit Royal Aloha at Lake Tahoe twice a year… It’s my all-time favorite vacation club destination. There’s so much to do around the Lake, no matter what time of year you visit. Here are some interesting facts about the Lake:

• Lake Tahoe is the highest lake of its size in the United States and the largest alpine lake in North America.
• Lake Tahoe is as long as the English Channel is wide, and the Lake’s width is half again as wide as San Francisco Bay.
• If Lake Tahoe’s water was completely dispersed, it would cover California with a depth of 14.5 inches.
• An average 1,400,000 tons of water evaporates from the surface of Lake Tahoe every 24 hours, yet the lake level drops only one-tenth of an inch.
• If the evaporated water could be recovered, it would supply the daily requirements of 3,500,000 people.
• Lake Tahoe’s water is 99.9% pure, so clear that a 10-inch white dinner plate would be visible at 75 feet below the surface.
• There are 63 tributaries draining into Lake Tahoe with only one outlet at the Truckee River.
• Lake Tahoe never freezes due to the constant mass movement of water from the bottom to the surface. In February 1989, Emerald Bay froze over for the first time since 1952.

I hope you get the chance to visit Royal Aloha Vacation Club in Lake Tahoe soon!

Channing Bridges hosts the Tuesday morning breakfast briefings and Thursday evening Pau Hana reception at our Vacation Club in Waikiki.

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