Reminds me of Lake Tahoe: similar surface area, windy, deep and cold clear water, spectacular horizon of snowcapped peaks with similar geology of Jurassic metamorphics. (though LT is twice as deep and 5 times higher elevation.)
A lot like Tahoe, agree
The conditions can change so fast!
Spooky
I was going to say chilly.
When I took that photo there was a heavy overcast on a chilly drizzly late afternoon after a day of flyfishing.
It was sunnier this day.
And yesterday crossing the river,
now that looks like my kind of stream!
Yesterday, crazy Germans 
Brrrr
Funny story
My hands got so cold 
that I ran into a bathroom to run them under warm water and the attendant (Bangladeshi ? man ) had to dig my euro out of my pocket because I couldn’t. So then I went into the bathroom but was afraid to pull my wetsuit down because I couldn’t feel my hands and I sure didn’t want to have to call him in. so I just gave up and left.
Wetsuits are washable. Got to do what you must.
I was once told that there are two kinds of surfers: those who pee in their wetsuits, and those who deny it. 
I always enjoy answering the “where do you pee” questions about the ultra distance events to mortified faces
Or how about the mountaineers above tree line and packing it out
