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I had planned to do a convenience store next, after all, if you're staying at a B&B, you need somewhere to get something for a picnic lunch. But when I saw the lot and that we needed to add water, I realised I needed to make a lot showcasing the beautiful blue lake now...

Frau Pfeifen suggested exploring the boathouse when Madge asked her where would be a good place for the Bettanys' lunch and even gave Madge some fish to cook in case they didn't catch any on their first day at the Tiernsee.

When Madge, Dick and Joey headed off to have an al fresco lunch at the 'bootshaus', Joey cried out "The lake is so blue!"* as she saw it past the boathouse.

Being Joey, she then threw herself down at the handy picnic area to read (a book of the legends of the Tyrol that she had found on the bookcase at Wald Villa), while Madge started cooking the fish and Dick explored the boathouse.

Dick found an old rowing boat in the boathouse, in need of repair, while another rowing boat was secured to the small jetty.

Madge called to her twin brother, "The fish is ready..."

Fortunately for Madge's confidence in cooking, Dick was too busy wondering why there seemed to be a flower garden so near to the lake to comment that the fish looked substantially more well done than he was used to.

Joey excitedly told her elder siblings all about the legend of the Tiernsee, "I know, Dick, those trees an' flowers will be leftover from when the city got swallowed up by the lake! Look, it says it here in my book," Joey ignored Madge's gentle reminder that it was Frau Pfeifen's book, "The people who lived in the city were too busy gettin' rich and stuff, an' never bothered about going to church, an' then one day, the water came creeping out of the church, an' swallowed up the whole city, and that's how the lake came to be! Gosh, if we go out in that boat, we might even be able to see the city!"

"Well, I'm not taking you out in someone's boat without asking them first, so you can forget that for now, old lady!" Dick retorted, "And anyway, I'm going to climb the Tiernjoch," pointing to the mountain that rose behind the boathouse.

Once the family had finished with the (blackened) fish and cleared up after themselves, the took a final look at the Tiernsee before heading back to Wald Villa to unpack.

I used CFE to add the pier foundation and walls to the original structure. Not a lot going on at the beach but it's the 1920s in rural Austria - no up the minute lidos here!

*Translated quote from Brent-Dyer (1983 p 24) "... Robin... shrieked with joy at "Le lac si bleu!"..."

References:

Brent-Dyer, Elinor M (1983) Jo of the Chalet School. London, Armada
Brent-Dyer refers to the legend of the origin of the Tiernsee in more than one book, but it is based on the origins of the Achensee, as cited here

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