Circumnavigation Of Lake Bled

On July 12th, as the rains ended, we departed from Ljubljana and drove back into the west of Slovenia, to the resort area of Lake Bled in the highlands approaching the Julian Alps. Lake Bled is very scenically situated, with a small island and a castle on an overlooking cliff. The lake is 3.5 miles in circumference, and the main activity in Lake Bled is to walk around the lake. 

Entrance to the huge campground on Lake Bled

Chainsaw sculpture at the campground resto; I always
wanted something like this for our home in Montana;
instead, we had a Green Man...

View of Lake Bled from the campground beach; note hanging castle at left

Probably because of my philosophical education, I always have difficulty
interpreting signage like this; for example, does the second picture from the
bottom right stipulate that only fresh or frozen or freeze-dried foods may be
consumed?

Lake Bled's island; note hanging castle

Closer up

The lake shore is mostly forested

Near Villa Bled, Tito's lakeside villa, now one of the nicer
hotels/restaurants; Plecnik designed the lamp-post columns
(you might have guessed) 

Extreme closer-up of island; you take the boat there, climb
the steps, go into the church, and ring the bell, which ensures
you will someday return to Lake Bled; we were going to do
this; but didn't

All around the lake were fisher-persons with elaborate wheeled fishing kits
like this

Thus; absentee-fishing

Small fry; lake color just like Plitvice and elsewhere in this part of the world

Helpful map of the lake and environs

Steps leading up to the Vila Bled

One of the boats that takes you to the island to ring the bell; no motorized
craft are permitted on the lake

Closer up of the castle

One of the few lake-side hotels; most of the recent development is up the hill,
away from the lake, certainly not spoiling its views

Looking back to the campground and where we started

And a different view of the castle; we thought about
visiting the castle; but didn't

One of the famous fiaker coaches of Bled; we thought about hiring one...

The Bled summer luge; we didn't even think about doing it

The very famous Bled cream cake, mostly Vicki's; the other bakery specialty of
the region is Poteca cake; available, alas, only at Christmas-time

Now about 3/4s of the way around, looking back toward Vila Bled

And the island

And the campground beach; nice, easy walk, with much to see