It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.

Pleasure boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water -- ocean, lake and reservoir.

Newest small-boat playground is the Salton Sea, a once-dry desert sinkhole which is now a salty lake 42 miles long and 235 feet below sea level.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.

Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.

Engineers estimated that once the project is finished, the tunnel will allow 500 million cubic meters of water to be drawn from the lake annually, while maintaining a constant water level.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

To the north of the city is a large artificial lake, called Anasagar with a marble structure known as Baradari.

By the lake is the Daulat Bāgh, a garden laid out by Emperor Jahāngīr.

Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.

However, the extent to which acid rain contributes directly or indirectly via runoff from the catchment to lake and river acidity ( i. e., depending on characteristics of the surrounding watershed ) is variable.

When this hydrological link is not present, the Black Sea is a lake, operating independent of the global ocean system.

Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.

However, she is unable to harm Beowulf through his armour and drags him to the bottom of the lake.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

Stolpe found very large amounts of amber on the island, which is unusual since amber is not normally found in lake Mälaren.

Naturally, a park site with scenic views, a good lake, trees, and sand dunes, will attract more people than a nearby area with only trees and dunes.

Gradual silting of the lake would seem to be occurring ; during low-water level, it is only about 1. 5 meters deep, while at flood stage it is between 10 and 15 meters deep.

The lake is the subject of local folklore ; a tradition at Wells College in Aurora holds that if the lake completely freezes over, classes are canceled ( though for only one day ).

However, other sources suggest that the only time the entire lake froze over in the 20th century was in 1912.

However, only 83 men made it to the other side of the lake before Allen and Arnold, concerned that dawn was approaching, decided to attack.

The deepest lake has a depth of only ; the depth of the average lake is.

The only permanent lake is Buhayrat al Qirawn, about ten kilometers east of Jezzine.

* Lake: The only lake in Liechtenstein is the Gampriner Seele.

Thus, the eastern side of the modern lake is much deeper than the western portion which averages only deep.

The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalized Sió is the only outflow.

While a few settlements on Lake Balaton, including Balatonfüred and Hévíz, have long been resort centres for the Hungarian aristocracy, it was only in the late 19th century that the Hungarian middle class began to visit the lake.

Torrential rain in January 2007 took about six weeks to reach the lake but put only a small amount of water into it.

Thorfinn and Snorri, with Freydis ( plus possibly Bjarni ), sail down the east coast with 40 men or more and establish a camp on the shore of a seaside lake, protected by barrier islands and connected to the open ocean by a river which is navigable by ships only at high tide.

The only significant lake in Epirus is Lake Pamvotis, on whose shores lies the city of Ioannina, the region's largest and traditionally most important city.

Claudian describes the ancient city as extending to a considerable length towards the promontory or headland, the projection of which sheltered its port: the latter affords good anchorage for large vessels ; but besides this, which is only a well-sheltered road-stead, there is adjoining the city a large salt-water lake, or lagoon, called the Stagno di Cagliari, communicating by a narrow channel with the bay, which appears from Claudian to have been used in ancient times as an inner harbor or basin.

The " lake " in which Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) crashes his X-wing in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was only deep, requiring the creation of a rig resembling the starfighter sitting in the lake at an angle.

Several species of deepwater ciscos were also extirpated from the lake by the 1960s ; the only remaining native deepwater cisco is the bloater.

This causeway prevents the normal mixing of the waters of the lake due to the fact that there are only three breaches.

; Spiral Jetty: The northwest arm of the lake, near Rozel Point, is the location for Robert Smithson's work of land art, Spiral Jetty ( 1970 ), which is only visible when the level of Great Salt Lake drops below 4, 197. 8 feet ( 1, 280. 2 m ) above sea level.

Even at that, only 1 % of Ontario's lakes contain lake trout.

They were told that if they dipped their hands in a nearby lake, they had only to raise their hands to repel army bullets.

High rates of evaporation ensure that the lake seldom fills up – much of the lake is only 1 metre deep or less.