Our second summer vacation was also to a natural pool located deep in the mountains of Oregon.
Tamolitch Blue Pool.
It's about a two and a half hour drive southwest of Portland.
What makes this pool unique is that, despite being so large and deep, it has no inlet for running water from anywhere.
It's not a hot spring, but a cold spring.Water from the nearby mountains gushes out of the bottom of this pool through underground water veins. This water pool origins the McKenzie River.
When we arrived here before noon, there were already dozens of people surrounding the pool.But no one dares to jump into the pool.
When I asked my daughter where the boys went, she told me that they were already up on that high ground.As I watched, I didn't think they were going to jump off of that top, but surprisingly one of my family guy jumped in beautifully.
Kai then tried to follow, so I said, "Stop! Don’t jump in! I screamed.Unbeknownst to me, such a scream was recorded and recorded (sweat).Listen to the flustered parental idiot, lol.
Just before that, I looked down from the top of the cliff and it looked higher than I imagined it would be and it literally knocked me off my feet.
What if landed on the water in the wrong place, what kind of injury I would get, and the sudden cold water could lead to a heart attack.
The boys jumped into the water with no regard for the old parental love.When they succeeded, they were treated as a hero for completing what their father couldn't.
I jumped in from the ground 0 inches above the surface of the water.
It was soooo cold water.
It was so cold that I couldn't stay in the water for a few seconds, and I quickly made it to shore, but my skin was then hit with a zinging pain.
After a few seconds, the pain felt like it had turned to a fire-like heat.I had never experienced anything like this before.
The water is infinitely clear.
The water is crystal clear and there are minerals in the water, including minerals from the springs.
If the water was just a little bit warmer, many people would be able to enjoy it.
“Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [ ] One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.”
John 5:2-8