PANDAPAS POND in black and white.
Just up the road a bit, the RT has an interesting piece on the natural cycles of Mountain Lake:
Scanland said surveyors in the 1700s reported the lake to be as large as 50 acres, while surveyors in the 1800s reported it as only a pond (the former name of Mountain Lake was Salt Pond).
This proves that the lake is a natural oddity that will have its ups and downs, Scanland said.
Though the lake is half-empty, Scanland prefers to look at it as half-full. He said he is confident the water will return again: “You just have to look back and say, ‘Nature is the one that’s in control of Mountain Lake.’ “
Long-term variability in natural systems is a concept that too often gets treated as heresy these days.