off topic - Loch Ness

[jan lameer]

Last Sunday the farmer on whose farm I live called me to see something spectacular.
Where I live, some 30 kilometers north of Amsterdam, the ground is some 4 meters below sealevel and it is canals and water everywhere. It is a bird sanctuary with a little farming left.
Oh well, I am ten meters from a small canal that ends where I live. It is 40 centimeters deep, 3 meters wide and 400 meters long until it connects to a larger canal that connects to a canal that is larger etcetera. The canals are to pump water out of the polder.
Oh well, the spectacular sight was that the fish called Karper were spawning.
Those fish are about 60 centimeters long, black and have a long fin on ther back from head to tail. At least 20 fish were spawning (mating) and they were violently moving above the surface of the water.
It looked like a 200 meters long eel was slowly swimming through the canal. This phenomenon is only visible for 2 or 3 days every year.
To me it seemed that this could be an explanation for the Loch Ness sightings...

JanL

[Peter Schack]

> Last Sunday the farmer on whose farm I live called me to see
> something spectacular.
> Where I live, some 30 kilometers north of Amsterdam, the ground
> is some 4 meters below sealevel and it is canals and water
> everywhere. It is a bird sanctuary with a little farming left.
> Oh well, I am ten meters from a small canal that ends where I
> live. It is 40 centimeters deep, 3 meters wide and 400 meters
> long until it connects to a larger canal that connects to a
> canal that is larger etcetera. The canals are to pump water out
> of the polder.
> Oh well, the spectacular sight was that the fish called Karper
> were spawning.
> Those fish are about 60 centimeters long, black and have a long
> fin on ther back from head to tail. At least 20 fish were
> spawning (mating) and they were violently moving above the
> surface of the water.
> It looked like a 200 meters long eel was slowly swimming through
> the canal. This phenomenon is only visible for 2 or 3 days every
> year.
> To me it seemed that this could be an explanation for the Loch
> Ness sightings...

> JanL

Hallo Jan,

sehr beindruckend, was Du da alles erleben kannst in, unter u. über dem Wasser bei Dir zu Hause! Aber wenn ich mir vorstelle, 'vier Meter unter dem Meeresspiegel' leben zu müssen - in dem mir vertrauten Ostfriesland sind es glaube ich plus 2-3 Meter - dann kann ich Südländer Dich nur bewundern...
Und wenn 'Karper' mit seinen Freunden u. Freundinnen zum Laichen kommt u. auch die Aale, die dann in höchster 'Freude' aus dem Wasser springen, dann gibts auch ein 'Loch Ness' nördlich von Amsterdam

Ich beneide Dich! Sowas würde ich auch gerne mal in 'natura' erleben.

Grotjes

Peter