For many years now I have been fortunate enough to live for part of each year on the shore of Lake Hallstatt in Upper Austria. This video is not about the town - but about the Lake itself. Lake Hallstatt has been referred to as the ‘melancholic lake’, the ‘still fjord’ and the ‘vision of a perfect mountain lake’. It is a classic relic of the Ice Age and it has a total area of 8.58 square KM lying between the steep Obertraun and Hallstatt mountains and Bad Goisern. It is the fifth largest of the Salzkammergut lakes. This is my reflective homage to ‘THE LAKE’.