As the cold days of winter stretch their frosty fingers toward the grassy plains of German Alps, the cattle farmers know it’s time to move their cattle down the mountain into the warmth of the farm. The trip, however, involves an adventure on the lake.
The only way to get the cattle from the remote summer mountain-pastures to their homestead near Berchtesgaden in southern Germany, is to ferry them across the Koeningsee Lake. For the lack of a real ferry, a makeshift platform is affixed on two lake boats. While it may not be the safest way to transport cows across the lake, it surely is a picturesque one.