THE HOTTEST MONTH of the year surely calls for tramping to a lake: somewhere to swim, to paddle your feet, or at least to appreciate the reflections.
According to scientist Simon Nathan in the online encyclopaedia Te Ara, there are 775 lakes in New Zealand, occupying about 1.3 per cent of our terrestrial land. He defines a lake as being at least 500m long, which excludes the vast majority of alpine tarns. The county's lakes have been formed by a range of processes: 38