In mid-summer, Southern Greece is not the most attractive place in this part of Europe. I would recommend the north of Greece instead. But this year it was really, really dry and hot; an extreme water stress year.
My good friend, Professor Maarten Vanhove from Belgium, came down for a visit. We visited Western Macedonia and we share some pics here.
Our focus was on surveying, inventory and documenting the nature of both the artificial lakes and natural lakes in the area. We are studying Lake Ilarion (the new lake - born 2012) and its downstream older cousin, Lake Polyphytos. We also visited the Prespas and Lake Kastoria.
It was way too hot for electrofishing, the water conditions too shallow.
Some few images from our five-day sojourn, 1800 kilometers round-trip from Athens!
Lake Kastoria
