This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from human carelessness and indifference.

Today’s photo was taken during our stay in Italy, where we celebrated our thirtieth Wedding Anniversary, way back in 2018. The lake is one of a series in Northern Italy, Lake Maggiore. We visited the booking office of the local ferry service to get tickets for what we hoped would be a tour of the lake. Translation of our basic Italian by the ticket vendor actually ended up in us taking a ferry ride from the port in Stresa, where we were staying, to Locarno in Switzerland and back. Not what we were expecting but, hey, we saw the lake! This was shot on our way back as the sun was beginning to descend.

There are numerous settlements around the shores of the lake, some small, some quite large. But there are also long stretches of undeveloped and natural coastline. This particular spot had a wide stretch of beach on which a few people were sunbathing, one or two actually daring the chill water that runs off the surrounding mountains.

It was an enjoyable ride.

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