Pitch Lake is an eerie, alien place. An oozing, boiling, thick mass of liquid asphalt, stretching out across an area of more than 100 acres (about 90 football fields) and descending over 250 feet ...

trinidad's lake of pitch; a hundred acres of natural asphalt pavement. how it is reached and what it looks like--making pitch reefs in the sea--a trinidad country house.

One lake featured in the book is Pitch Lake in Trinidad. The lake is a giant pit of asphalt that is used for harvesting asphalt to this day. The lake’s surface isn’t liquid, and people can ...