CHAPTER XXI.
EMERALD BAY AND CAMP Situated near the southwest corner of Lake Tahoe is Emerald Bay, by many thousands regarded as the choicest portion of Lake Tahoe.
Surrounded by so many wonderful scenes, as one is at Tahoe, it is difficult to decide which possesses surpassing power, but few there are who see Emerald Bay without at once succumbing to its allurement.
Its geological history has already been given in Chapter VIII, in which it is clearly shown by Dr.Joseph Le Conte that it was once a glacial lake, and that the entrance to the main lake used to be the terminal moraine that separated the two bodies of water.

As a natural consequence, therefore, visitors may expect to find evidences of glacial action on every hand.

They are not disappointed.

The walls of the Bay, on both north and south, are composed of glacial detritus, that of the south being a pure moraine, separating the once glacial lake of Emerald Bay from Cascade Lake.
Emerald Bay is about three miles in length, with a southwesterly trend, and half a mile wide.

The entrance is perhaps a quarter of a mile wide and is formed by a triangular spit of sand, on which grows a lone pine, on the one side, and a green chaparral-clad slope, known as Eagle Point, on the other.