16 May 2008About the lake.
Wonderful place. The biggest lake in southeastern Europe. A real transboundary lake. One half belongs to Montenegro the other half to Albania. When the carps are spanwing fishing is prohibited on this side but on the Albanian side it is not. Montenegro's anglers are unarmed while the Albanians won’t leave their guns at home.
This side is rarely inhabited, that one is overpopulated. That's why this could be a National Park and the other not. South side is rocky full of islands but the Northern shore is very swampy because of river Zeta. It's greatest speciality, 5 different biotopes can be found within 100 meters: open water, swamp, floodplain forests, deciduous forests, karst spots. The lake's surface is 370 - 550 square kilometers, avarage depth is around 5 meters and 280 species of birds can be found. One third of the Pygmy Cormorant's population of the world lives here. The Dalmatian Pelican is nesting here, which is the symbol of the National Park as well. Quite interesting that there is an island where seagulls are nesting that escaped from the tourists. In the last twenty years the terns got more common, living in 9 colonies and setting over 1.200 nests.
Sheer wild beauty.
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