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At the National Park
by antlady69 @ 29.04.2008 - 06:43:03

I was putting a lot of miles on my car this weekend... :D

On Saturday, I went to Mt. Grosser Arber at the "Bavarian Forest" national park (or click here if you can read German). This is an amazingly beautiful area where nature is left to itself (no lumbering), and with lots of rare wildlife (wildcats, lynx, rare plants).

Arber mit Hütte

This time, though, I wanted to see the two lakes at Mt. Grosser Arber. Both are relics from the ice age and surrounded by virgin forest.

The Great Arber Lake (link only in GE) is the most visited lake in the region - which also means that there's way too many tourists there in high season. But at the moment everything's nice and quiet - and cold :D

Grosser Arbersee

Yes, that's ice you see there! :D The lake is 935 meters (3,070 ft) above sea level so it's bound to be cooler than lower-lying areas. For example, when I left my home (500 meters or 1,640 ft) at 9 a.m., we had 12°C. When I got to Mt. Arber about 3 hours later, the temperature had dropped to 6°C. :)

But I didn't spend too much time at Great Arber Lake, I wanted to move on to Little Arber Lake which I read was even more natural / mysterious / pretty, and not as overrun.

See my next post for that :)

See more photos on my Webshots site

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2008-04-29 @ 07:17

What a wonderful place... how lovely. :yes:

I explored your images... really love the one called Wurzelgewächse... amazing! :D

Where are the lynx and wildcats though? You can't go around promising us pussy like that and not showing any... :>>

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antlady69antlady69 pro
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2008-04-29 @ 08:05

*BOL*

Darn, I'm blocked from searching for the really interesting photos now - you'll have to do so yourself, I'm afraid :)) :))

Thanks for the photo compliment ;)
I saw that root and knew I had to take a photo of it.

Later on today I'll have to take some photos for work. Wonder how they'll turn out... :>>

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UsksiderUsksider pro
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2008-04-29 @ 08:15

Darn! :roll: :))

I'm sure your photos will turn out just fine. :yes:

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