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It is a glaciated finger lake, clawed out of rock when ice retracted across Nova Scotia in a northerly direction during the last ice age. The lake is narrow, a little over a mile long, and deep, 90 to 190 feet in places according to local lore, off the charts in others. I love to swim here, with a sense of incalculable depth below, the open sky above—an illusion of a double infinity. I swim on the cusp of air and water, expansive vista across time and space.  \nThere is a road along the eastern side of the lake, picturesque for the view, wooded hills rising gently behind it. Acadian forest of birch and aspen, pine and hemlock, and the ubiquitous Nova Scotia weed maple. The shoreline is rocky, marked by lady’s slippers and pink wild rhododendron in June, wild iris in the shallows in July. The northern tip of the lake has recently been developed into a dozen lots of several acres, each with its massive suburban house and dock with waterslide or trampoline. At the narrow southern end of the lake, there is a public beach with trucked-in sand, a parking lot, and lifeguards. Adjacent to the artificial beach, along the southwest shore, is a string of year-round homes, modified from earlier cottages. The terrain is convoluted stony hardpan, the little houses shoe-horned into odd flat spots or lightly wooded ridges.  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 13 (2), 2008 159  \nAfter the houses, the road ends at the boat club. The boat club trains kayakers and canoeists. Day after day, April to November, twenty or thirty boats skim the water like dragonflies. Their coach sits in an aluminum motorboat on a swivel chair, one hand on the tiller, and holds an umbrella over his head if it rains. From the boat club to the distant northern tip of the lake along the western shore is pristine wilderness, five minutes from home. This is where I swim, following the long stretch of wilderness park, staying within the littoral zone, less than a hundred feet from shore.  \nI have been swimming here for twenty-six years. In the early years I was also a runner. When I was told that I could no longer run due to injuries, I shifted my five-mile jog into the lake, put some distance, perhaps a mile, into my swim. While I could still run, my children and I would swim to the big pine with a long branch that hung over the water. Someone had knotted a rope over it. We could stand six feet up on shore, and someone in the water would swing the rope up. The jumper would catch it, leap and wrap the legs around the knot in one motion, fly out over the water, and drop into the deep. It required daring and good timing, a mother’s judgment about when children could safely try it. That tree fell in a storm eighteen years ago, the memory of kids and mother swinging into the water held now in the sweeping, weathered roots that wrap bare rock like driftwood.  \nTremolo  \nThe lake has a loon. I hear it first in late April, its haunting call filling the sky as it flies inland from the ocean to its freshwater feeding grounds. It calls again in the evening, when it returns to the ocean. Each year, when I first hear its long yearning cry overhead, pleasure and excitement rise. Swimming season is about to begin.  \nLast year I bought a wetsuit to extend the swimming season. In Nova Scotia, April is still a winter month, and May to July a rainy season. Rain, and more rain, low dark cloud cover, five to six days at a time without sun. The occasional warm sunny day with bright sparkling water is like meeting a long lost loved one. On May 10 it is very warm, but I have never gone in the lake so early in the year. I am far from young. Once I decide to swim, I walk in steadily without pauses. In the shallows, the water temperature is just short of numbing to the feet and hands. When the cold water sluices through the wetsuit, shocking every crevice and expanse of skin, I wonder if this is dangerous, whether I could have a hear","cbCaiasxInreQXZZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiasxInreQXZZ","pdf",116917,"English","# Lake\n## Tremolo\n## Exhale","[{\"question\":\"What is the narrator’s relationship with the lake over time?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator has been swimming there for twenty-six years, returning each season and adapting routines as their body changes over time.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the narrator prepare for difficult conditions like rain and cold water?\",\"answer\":\"They extend the season with a wetsuit, watch the weather and water conditions, and check temperature with a thermometer before deciding how far to swim.\"},{\"question\":\"How do injuries affect the narrator’s swimming style?\",\"answer\":\"Bursitis and tendonitis lead to adaptations such as adjusting strokes or swimming with legs only using a flutter board during recovery periods.\"}]","Lake - read online free | PDF",15]