Cerknica Lake
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click on image to enlarge I chose picture of the day with "Cerknica Lake" theme. And I also shot a scene with bear here. So it is time to say something about this lake.
Cerknica Lake is an intermittent lake and covers 26 km^2 when is full - even up to 38 km^2. It is 10 km long and 5 km wide. That makes it the largest lake in Slovenia.
Cerknica Lake - a Karst disappearing lake is also famous. It is a lake for half the year in which one can fish and in winter,skate on the frozen surface. It starts to disappear in spring and leaves behind a field where farmers cut hay through the summer. The causes of the drying out of this natural curiosity, already famous in classical times, were studied more than three hundred years ago by the natural and social historian, Janez Vajkard Valvasor. His report encouraged great interest and he was elected a member of the Royal Society in London for his interpretations
In long years of studying Cerknica Lake, Vekoslav Kebe had made living model of this misterious lake. Model is unique in choice of material. It's the first presentation which shows functioning of disappearing Cerknica Lake and exactly ilustrates state in nature. By expert's opinion it's a creation which contains in large measure author's personal creativity. While we are looking at the model we also hear original sounds of nature along with interesting explanation. Museum also includes literature, ethnological collection and multivision (presents lake in all four seasons).
Model of the lake Cerknica introduces karstic phenomena of the intermittent lake. It is made in scale of 1:2500 and size 3 x 5 m and shows lake conditions in dry and rainy periods.
Listen to a commentary lasting approximately 45 minutes ( available in slovene and several other languages ) you learn all about the formation and disappearance of intermittent Lake Cerknica. While viewing the water system on the model you will simultaneusly hear recordings of sounds from the nature ( birds, other animals etc. ). The unique model of the lake has turistic, educational and cultural purposes.
Here is a link to panoramas from Cerknica Lake:
http://www.burger.si/Cerknica/CerkniskoJezero/seznam.htm
http://www.burger.si/Cerknica/CerkniskoJezero/seznam.htm
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Thanks. Do such lakes exist elsewhere in the world? Or is ours the only one?
Thanks. I didn't know about the other ones. It's nice to read about the beauty of our little country. We tend to forget about it, don't we?
Too bad that manytimes we prefer taking our trips outside Slovenija and we do not see the beauty we have near us.
Me and my wife decided we are going to terme Moravske or Catez this summer. I hope our kids will like it.
Hi Matej,
I did some cave diving in the Cerknica Lake's caves.... the Suhadolca cave. It is a lovely shallow and long cave. Its shape is narrow and low profile. There can be found stalagmites and stalactites as part of the time it is a dry cave.
Somethimes we don't know, how many beauties we have in Slovenija. When I was working in Transavto Postojna I had visited the lake of Cerknica many times.
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