Today, the winner’s name of the winter series was whittled down to a possible 15 swimmers - by fair means and foul. Following some racing in chilly waters, the names of those in the hunt include in no particular order: Thomas Brian, Bowman Stuart, Kovachich Pamela, Cleaver Anthony, Schiemann Tony, Fabik Mark, Lobo Daniel, Harling Leanne, Johnson Angela, Ouldcott Lilly, Cselko George, Barron Mike, Mavra Ana, Newing Rod, Ouldcott Rob.
The build-up to today’s racing had been about the battle between the members of various families, but one member took the law into his own hands by stalling Lily Ouldcott at the start of her heat. In the subsequent heat, the same culprit grabbed Rob Ouldcott by the ankle in the closing yards of their race. The bounder finished second last and is far out of the running to win the winter series. Having cited the messer, best to cite the line from Grantland Rice’s sports poem “He writes - not that you won or lost - but how you played the Game."
Back in the warmth of the cafe, the talk was all about sharks and crayfish, one of which has recently been spotted in the dark deep waters of the Serpentine. The chat covered the various types of lakes around the world which raised the question regarding what types of lakes exist on our planet? Basic geography lessons recalled the types of lakes which are in existence and they include wine lakes, milk lakes and more.
A few more lakes are sprinkled below for earnest lake spotters .
*Periglacial lake: Part of the lake's margin is formed by an ice sheet, ice cap or glacier, the ice having obstructed the natural drainage of the land.
*Subglacial lake: A lake which is permanently covered by ice. They can occur under glaciers, ice caps or ice sheets. There are many such lakes, but Lake Vostok in Antarctica is by far the largest. They are kept liquid because the overlying ice acts as a thermal insulator retaining energy introduced to its underside by friction, by water percolating through crevasses, by the pressure from the mass of the ice sheet above or by geothermal heating below.
*Glacial lake: a lake with origins in a melted glacier, like a kettle lake .
*Artificial lake: A lake created by flooding land behind a dam, called animpoundment or reservoir by deliberate human excavation, or by the flooding of an excavation incident to amineral-extraction operation such as an open pit mine or quarry.
