Boat Trip in Zurich Lake

Zurich has one big magnificent lake! (Seems like the pattern here that each of the Swiss city has a big lake, and mountains....perhaps one of the reasons Switzerland is the most expensive place to live in the world ??

We manage to get on the boat cruise that bring us around the lake. The boat also serve as a public transport, getting people from one side of the lake to another, or to another jetty on the same side of the lake....it is a HUGE lake, and to go around the whole lake on boat takes about 3 hours. We only did the 1.5 hours ride, that brings us to less then half of the jetties around the lake, and only halfway down the length of the lake.

There are large beautiful houses surrounding the large lake....all very, very expensive waterfront house with their own private yatch/ sail boat parked in front of the house.Where do all these rich people come from? They have to be bankers, we're thinking....there just cant be THAT MANY people made rich because they are famous movie stars and sport stars out there to make up the population that surrounds the lake.

The scenary from the lake is really beautiful too...we can see mountains as a backdrop, the big beautiful lake, sailboats on the lake...and looking out to shore, sometimes the odd church with its tall steeples here and there.