Lake Walk
So, I managed to get in a day's walking between Christmas and New Year. Family commitments (playing with toys!) precluded any sojourn further afield, so I just nipped up to my local lake, about 30 minutes away, and walked round that. Teganuma is an interesting little lake. Well, actually not that little; at over 9 miles long, it's a nice 20-mile round. Perfect for a cool, breezy winter's day.
The thing about Teganuma is it's a bit of a success story. Not so long ago it was considered to be the dirtiest stretch of water in Japan, with virtually no aquatic life, and just the odd scabby water bird to make the look match the plight. And then the big clean-up began. Now the lake is teeming with fish, and flocked with myriad water birds feasting on that abundance. I plan to focus on the bird life in another post, and here have just included a few general views.
It's true that this boat must have seen better days, so too with the novelty helicopter boat on the left, now a g…
The thing about Teganuma is it's a bit of a success story. Not so long ago it was considered to be the dirtiest stretch of water in Japan, with virtually no aquatic life, and just the odd scabby water bird to make the look match the plight. And then the big clean-up began. Now the lake is teeming with fish, and flocked with myriad water birds feasting on that abundance. I plan to focus on the bird life in another post, and here have just included a few general views.
It's true that this boat must have seen better days, so too with the novelty helicopter boat on the left, now a g…