A Lake That Breathes
Lake Cerknica carries something magical within itself. The largest intermittent lake in Europe, with its maximum flooded area reaching 29 km², feels like more than just a lake, forever shifting, never still. It brims with life, birds, fish, wild creatures… Even bears, who come to feast on fish left behind when the waters vanish. Where in summer there are pastures, in autumn or after heavy rains the lake returns, reshaping the land. Through the seasons it changes in wondrous ways, as if it follows a rhythm of its own, different from the rest of nature. At sunrise it calls people to its shores, inviting children to play and fishermen to merge with the water, and they stay until the sun slips beneath the horizon… Leaving only the sleeping swans, adrift in the moonlight.
And so the cycle repeats, day after day, year after year. Yet this lake moves to a rhythm more its own than the rest of nature, though in nature all is intertwined… And so it will remain, through centuries yet to come...
