The "Big Thirst" - Summer 2022 - The Whole Lake Cerknica Basin (38km2) in 16 Pano Photos; Internal Karst-Dinaric Region, Notranjska, Slovenija
01-September-2022: to conclude this reportage a necessary overview of the potentially lake area.
FIND the embanked part to which the previous photos were dedicated and corresponding to less than 1% of the maximum extension of the lake (see notes...)
The photos are taken from a viewpoint on the Slivnica mountain (1118m a.s.l.) overlooking the flat basin of Cerknica/Cerkniško polje (545m, a.s.l.), which was once almost always covered by the water of what was, by far, the larger lake in Slovenija (up to 38km2), especially in rainy years when it persisted for 12 months a year.
As mentioned, since 2003 the temporary lake of Cerkinca has become more and more ghost, gradually retreating, with the water covering the extensive basin (once a karstic lake bed) only in the autumn months, while in 2021 not even in those.
Now I look forward to photographing it full (alluvial phase), hopefully by late October...
The "Big Thirst" - Summer 2022 - The Whole Lake Cerknica Basin (38km2) in 16 Pano Photos; Internal Karst-Dinaric Region, Notranjska, Slovenija
01-September-2022: to conclude this reportage a necessary overview of the potentially lake area.
FIND the embanked part to which the previous photos were dedicated and corresponding to less than 1% of the maximum extension of the lake (see notes...)
The photos are taken from a viewpoint on the Slivnica mountain (1118m a.s.l.) overlooking the flat basin of Cerknica/Cerkniško polje (545m, a.s.l.), which was once almost always covered by the water of what was, by far, the larger lake in Slovenija (up to 38km2), especially in rainy years when it persisted for 12 months a year.
As mentioned, since 2003 the temporary lake of Cerkinca has become more and more ghost, gradually retreating, with the water covering the extensive basin (once a karstic lake bed) only in the autumn months, while in 2021 not even in those.
Now I look forward to photographing it full (alluvial phase), hopefully by late October...