JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. MORSKIE OKO. ZAKOPANE/POLAND
Sunday, Adar II 24, 5779. March 31, 2019. Shalom! World. Morskie Oko. Zakopane/Poland. Morskie Oko (literally "Sea Eye" or Eye of the Sea"), is the largest and fourth-deepest lake in the Tatra Mountains. It is located deep within the Tatra National Park, Poland, in the Rybi Potok (the Fish Brook) Valley, of the High Tatras mountain range at the base of the Mieguszowiecki Summits, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship. The peaks that surround the lake rise about 1,000 meters above its surface; one of them is Rysy (2,499 meters), the highest peak is the left, is the distinctive, slender Mnchi ("Monk," 2,068 meters). Many Swiss Pines also grow around the lake. In the past, Morskie Oko was called "Rybie Jezioro" ("Fish Lake") due to its natural stock of fish, which are uncommon in Tatra lakes and ponds. In the clear depths of the water, one can easily notice trout - so called "famine" tr...