We Like it Fresh

Only in Lake Baikal (Russia) will you find the freshwater Baikal Seal (aka Nerpa). There are only 3 freshwater seal populations in the world.  I thought this most be a pretty fantastic lake that it is home to this amazing creature   Well, it turns out that this is the larges freshwater lake in the world and holds up to 23% of the world's fresh water.  It is also the world's deepest and oldest lakes (only 25 million years).                            
                                                      Yep... these cuties earless.

It's a scientific mystery of how the seals found themselves in this freshwater lake.  Today, they are an estimated up to 100,000 of these seals in existence.

                                                                         The Lake

 And in the winter...

It's here..