A summersevening #1 After a warm and clear day the sky colours beautifully even when the sun has set. It's always better to be by the water when it's this hot, and the Kraaijenbergse lakes offer some cooling. Because there is no wind the water is like a mirror. It looks like the Frisian lakes, but you are really in Brabant. You can see water as far as the eye can see. This is the result of 40 years of digging for sand, gravel and clay. After this digging most lakes were created for recreation, a few for nature. In those natural lakes we didn't dig too deep and we made the banks irregular. The Kraaijenbergse Plassen are an extensive area of lakes of more than 400 ha. The lakes are located in the municipalities of Cuijk and Grave in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. The lakes were created in 1968 through the extraction of industrial sand, gravel and clay. Originally this thinly populated area was part of the Beerse Overlaat. The sand extraction activities, which ended in 2010, created a lake area that stretches parallel to the Maas from the Cuijk harbour in the east to Gassel in the west and from the Maas in the north to Beers in the south. The village of Linden was virtually surrounded by water as a result of these activities.
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