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.

During the war a British fighter squadron ( flying ' Gloster Gladiators ') flew from the icebound surface of lake Lesjaskogsvatnet.

South of the lake lie the floodplains of the Chari and Logone rivers, much of which are inundated during the rainy season.

The annual flooding, combined with poor drainage immediately around the lake, transforms the surrounding area into marshlands unusable for agricultural purposes during the dry season.

The sediment deposited into the lake during the Mekong's flood stage appears to be greater than the quantity carried away later by the Tonle Sap River.

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.

This lake was covered during the early 18th century as the city grew.

Short-term level changes are often caused by seiches that are particularly high when southwesterly winds blow across the length of the lake during storms.

As the power of the Iroquois waned during the last quarter of the 17th century, several other, mainly Anishinaabe Native American tribes, displaced them from the territories they claimed on the north shore of the lake.

The lake basin was carved out of soft, weak Silurian-age rocks by the Wisconsin ice sheet during the last ice age.

French coureurs des bois and voyageurs established small ports and trading communities, such as Green Bay, on the lake during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Some recent articles appeared during the Champlain Quadricentennial ( 2009 ) claiming Ondakina as the “ local ” native name for the lake, but none cites a verifiable source.

No living person could remember the lake being free of ice during the winter up until then.

Several Ilyushin Il-2 wrecks have been pulled out of the lake after having been shot down during the latter months of the war.

The average water temperature during the summer is 25 ° C, which makes bathing and swimming popular on the lake.

Although the peak season at the lake is the summer, Balaton is also frequented during the winter, when visitors go ice-fishing or even skate, sledge, or ice-sail on the lake if it freezes over.

For most of the year it is a dry, saline wasteland, but during the wet season, it forms a shallow lake covering more than.

* 1287 – December 14 – A fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake in Holland collapses during a heavy storm, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

Global temperature records taken from ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits, have shown that, taken globally, the Earth may have been slightly cooler ( by 0. 03 degrees Celsius ) during the ' Medieval Warm Period ' than in the early and mid-20th century.

Although there is an extreme scarcity of data from Australia ( for both the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age ) evidence from wave-built shingle terraces for a permanently full Lake Eyre during the 9th and 10th centuries is consistent with this La Niña-like configuration, though of itself inadequate to show how lake levels varied from year to year or what climatic conditions elsewhere in Australia were like.

They start at the Oktagon and during a one hour walk through the park visitors can follow the water's way until they reach the lake of the castle Wilhelmshöhe where a big fountain of about 50 metres marks the end of the spectacle.

There is evidence of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhet III in the twelfth dynasty ( about 1800 BCE ) using the natural lake of the Faiyum Oasis as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons, the lake swelled annually from flooding of the Nile.

Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, providing energy and picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the leeward shores.

At its height during the most recent ice age, the lake may have been deep.

Striped bass are an anadromous fish and their spawning ritual of traveling up rivers to spawn led some of them to become landlocked during lake dam constructions.