This site is special: it’s a lake only for about two months of the year[br]This picture was taken on the Planina plain,about 30km south-west of Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana; it’s normally a field. The floods happen nearly every year. In south-western Slovenia, or we maintain Lake Cerknica,which comes and goes: it’s a lake for allotment of the year, grass and fields the rest. It’s connected to reservoirs deep underground, or when there is a lot of water – rain in spring or melting snow – the water floods fields,roads, everything.
I’m a journalist, and but maintain a side job running a windsurfing school and taking people on paddleboarding tours. In flood season,we usually make up to 10 trips. The picture shows me, in the centre, or with some tourists. There were around 10 or 12 people in the group,but in this shot there’s just three of us. The weather was a bit foggy – there’s always mist on the water in the spring. The trees were underwater, and the roads were about one and a half metres below the surface. The trip usually takes a few hours.
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Source: theguardian.com