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Pitch Lake, Trinidad

richard-seaman.com — I found this after looking at the Pitch Drop digg item, this is an entire lake of 'pitch' (tar). "Unlike a sterile and lifeless parking lot, you soon get a sense here that this lake is somehow alive"

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  • nopal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Roy has quite the hat.
  • valmiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1menoob, thats a shame!!! I'm from trinidad and I have been there twice :) It's a good fun time :) Just don't let the local ppl there hustle you for ya money.
  • dargon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This reminds me of a place near where I grew up known as spotted lake. The lake has an enormously high mineral component to it's water, and during the summer months, evaporation causes the minerals to crystalize and form a mineral crust that has a spotted appearance.

    http://www.rayjanko.com/aerials/2.htm
    http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=136224

    The tar lake is definately neat though
  • ThisGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The artcal doesn't explain the lake (unless i missed it completely), is it just a surface oil well?
  • bluekey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1been there, we put our feet in the yellow water. its loaded with sulfur and stuff.
  • dunstdunst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://birdingtobago.com
  • Warptera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It looks kind of gross, but hey, it's interesting.
  • rolandog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Darnit... just remembered the 'super best friends' south park episode... "sea-MAN, not seMEN".
  • DeathTrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's odd that the most interesting thing to read about in this high-tech world is tar, but it's just interesting for some reason. Dugg and also dugg the pitch drop experiment.
  • datagod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder if there are any dino bones at the bottom...pretty cool...double plus digg.
  • Menoob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The funny thing is that even though I am from Trinidad I have never actually been on the lake.:(
  • rideaurocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Weird and cool.
  • monolith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Run for your lives!
  • Stevey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would so not drink that water! Awesome article!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0An article about a lake full of sticky gooey pitch on a website called "richard seaman"?
  • cgruber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dont think i'd drink that water.
  • 53x11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Roy was the best part
  • launchpadtt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_Lake

    Aye Trinidad on digg. Awesome. (yet another trini here, never been there either though : ( )
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+1 because you found it because of another digg article.
  • BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Teh tar r teh kewl.
  • badnewsblair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very interesting! Thanks.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone wanna take a bath? :)
  • olbricht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0something tells me that isnt natural, and isnt legally created anymore, but cool none the less
  • Advocate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Roy need to tie his shoes
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0creepy
  • gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good digg - that was cool
  • dufarb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How sweet is roy
  • w0lfwoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Way Kewl! How do I find Roy?

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