YEAH!! it's nice i'm telling u!!! B) Although the mountains have a bad tendency to start on fire every single summer, one year we were on evacuation alert and it was so stressful ugh, at least I didn't have to evacuate in the end lol I do swim in the lake but not as much as one would think, living as close as I do.. you have to go super early or else it's all full of tourists :b There's seaweed in some areas which is pretty freaky to brush up against. Actually we have a v old legend about a sea serpent N'ha-ha-itk that lives in the lake, it used to scare me a lot so I still don't dare swim at night haha! Especially since it's rumored to live specifically near Rattlesnake Island which is clearly visible from where I am x> It's more commonly known as "Ogopogo" (i don't know where that name came from), u may even have heard of it, there's a statue of it in the city park and everything.