THE WILD PLACE

Caddo Lake on the Texas-Louisiana border

荒野勝景

橫跨德州與路易斯安那州的卡多湖

CADDO LAKE GAVE up its secrets long ago. Almost as quickly as pearls were discovered in the 1910s, the rush fizzled out. It was the same for oil when greater reserves were discovered elsewhere in the Lone Star state. But take a slow, floating trip down the tangled waterways of the 10,300-hectare lake on the Texas-Louisiana border, and you’ll see there’s still plenty of Southern Gothic mystery lurking among the hulking cypresses, silvery mosses and occasional flashes of alligator tails.

卡多湖的秘密早就公諸於世了。 年代湖裡發現出產珍珠，曾掀起短暫的尋珠熱潮。其後德薩斯州發現石油礦，出也 現過同樣的況情 。卡多湖位於德薩斯與路易斯安那兩州之間，面積10,300公頃，在乘船 湖上縱橫交錯的水道上漫遊，你會見到裡這 仍有不少高大粗壯的柏樹、泛著銀光的苔蘚與偶然閃現的短吻鱷尾巴，瀰漫著美國南方特有的哥德式神秘氣氛。