Monday 16 December 2019

Whilst Looking For Nothing In Particular,

I came across these photographs,


 they were all taken at the same place, Lake Baikal, a little about the lake, it is the largest freshwater lake in the world (by volume) and the world's deepest lake, somewhat crescent shaped, it is in the southern Siberia area of Russia. In 1996 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, "Lake Baikal is the oldest lake in the world. It is home to approximately 1,700 to 1,800 endemic plant and animal species," said Jennifer Castner of Pacific Environment's Russia program, additionally, it holds 20 percent of the world's fresh water, due to the lake's depth, so to the photographs, above, a small stone stands on a "leg" above the ice of Lake Baikal. At one point the bottom of the stone froze to the surface of the ice, and over time, relentless winds wore away its underpinnings, sublimating the ice and shaping a smooth pedestal within a shallow depression, photograph Savva_25 / Shutterstock,

 ice-covered trees on the shoreline of Lake Baikal, photograph Shchipkova Elena / Shutterstock,

 sunset viewed from inside an ice cave on Lake Baikal's Olkhon Island, photograph Shane WP Wongperk / Shutterstock,

a wind-sculpted chunk of Baikal ice barely remains attached to the surface on a narrow pedestal, photograph, Slava Kozyakov / Shutterstock, for more stunning photographs like these have a look here, what a stunning place to visit.


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