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Rent a paddleboard in the protected waterways of Clear Lake.

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Kemah Kayak Historical and Ecological Tour

A must do tour of the Clear Lake area! Learn how the town of Kemah was founded, the impact of hurricanes, and the importance of Clear Lake.

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Lady of the Lake

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• Downtown by the Seawall PO Box 212 Clear Lake IA 50428
• (641) 357-2243
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Mid-May throught the first Saturday in October. Check our website for cruise times.

Driving Directions:

From I-35 take Exit 194. Proceed West on US Hwy 18 to North 8th St. Proceed to Main Avenue and turn right onto Main Avenue. Stay on Main Avenue and turn Right on Lakeview Drive.

For the true Clear Lake experience you have to get on the water! The Lady of the Lake is an Authentic Stern Wheeler, offering scenic tours of Clear Lake. Public Cruises are approximately 90 minutes. The public cruise schedule is posted at the City Seawall, and also on www.cruiseclearlake.com. Rates and Public Cruise schedule are subject to change or cancellation due to dangerous wind or weather conditions. Call for our weather conditions report. Purchase tickets when you board approximately 20 minutes prior to departure. Please contact us for large group reservations. Rates: Adults $15, Children under 12 are $6. We do not take debit or credit cards. Private Charters are a great way to celebrate special events! Fund Raising, Company Parties, Class Reunions, Family Reunions, Weddings, Birthdays, Anniversaries, are more fun on board the Lady of the Lake! (Capacity 150 passengers) Wednesday nights are dockside night! For more information visit the calendar on our website, or call.

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Seawall Downtown Clear Lake (641) 357-2243 www.cruiseclearlake.com Built in 1960 by Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works, the Lady of the Lake is one of the last remaining paddle boat ferries still in operation today. Come aboard and enjoy a relaxing lake excursion on beautiful Clear Lake! Catering is available. Admission: $16 for adults, $7 for children 12 and under, and kids two and under ride for free. Those looking for a private charter can reserve Lady of the Lake by emailing [email protected] or calling 641- 357-2243. Group Tour Information Group Tour Hours of Operation: regular hours plus other times by appointment in May – September Group Admission Rate: $14 per person public cruise; $16 per person dessert cruise; $25 per person public cruise and meal; $6 children under 12; can also charter boat for $450 per hour – minimum of 2 hours for charter; complimentary admission for driver and escort for groups of 30 or more Group Tour Size: 30 minimum and 150 maximum Guided Tours Available: Yes, reservations required (2-week notice) Unique Tours for Motorcoach Groups Only: Yes, the motorcoach groups are offered a chicken dinner that includes 2 piece chicken dinner with two sides, roll and cookie or bar for dessert, drink includes lemonade and coffee. Pop, beer and mixed drinks cash bar. Length of Tour: 90 minutes minimum for general excursion. Handicap Accessible: Yes, lower deck only Motorcoach Parking: Yes Restroom Facilities: yes, limited

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on Beautiful Lake Coeur d’Alene

Lake Coeur d'Alene is known as the playground of the Pacific Northwest - and the rail of a cruise boat is the best place to enjoy it!

Lake Coeur d'Alene Cruises offers a great way to enjoy the lake with family and friends. We have many fun-filled cruise options to choose from - including daily scenic cruises, dinner cruises, Sunday brunch cruises, holiday cruises, and so much more. We proudly offer cruises all year round!

Guests can also charter a private cruise boat for their upcoming special occasion - whether it be a wedding or a birthday party, a cruise boat is one of the most unique and desirable on-water venues in the Pacific Northwest!

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Our large fleet of newly renovated cruise boats offers large picture windows, sound systems, and full bar service. There are also dining options available on select cruises. Whichever cruise you join us on, you’ll enjoy a spectacular experience on the water.

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107 FT LONG 33 FT WIDE TOTAL CAPACITY (INSIDE & OUTSIDE): 400 INSIDE SEATING CAPACITY: 220 MEAL CAPACITY: 160

THE COEUR D'ALENE

102 FT LONG 28 FT WIDE TOTAL CAPACITY (INSIDE & OUTSIDE): 400 INSIDE SEATING CAPACITY: 150 MEAL CAPACITY: 130

THE KOOTENAI

65 FT LONG 17 FT WIDE TOTAL CAPACITY (INSIDE & OUTSIDE): 80 INSIDE SEATING CAPACITY: 60 MEAL CAPACITY: 40

65 FT LONG 23 FT WIDE TOTAL CAPACITY (INSIDE & OUTSIDE): 149 INSIDE SEATING CAPACITY: 100 MEAL CAPACITY: 80

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Experience the beauty of north idaho.

The one, the only, the beautiful lake Coeur d'Alene. Located in north Idaho, this incredible body of water is over 26 miles long with 135+ miles of shoreline. The lake is fed primarily by two rivers, the Coeur d'Alene River and the St. Joe River, and its outlet forms the Spokane River. Our various cruises takes guests throughout different areas of lake Coeur d'Alene. Click the button below to view our interactive route map!

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Launch a rewarding career on the water.

Our core values make us who we are here at Lake Coeur d'Alene Cruises - as we change and grow, our company beliefs still stay the same - we always put our Guests and Team Members first. We pursue excellence, embrace change, act with integrity and have just plain FUN. Being a part of Lake Coeur d'Alene Cruises means being a part of a thriving  culture and loving everything and anything water related.

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Interested in booking a private charter cruise for your special event? Imagining your wedding on a luxurious cruise? Questions about our scenic cruises or upcoming events? Get in touch with a cruise specialist today!

See renderings as Clear Lake breaks ground on larger visitor center for Surf Ballroom

Iowa's most venerated rock music landmark will soon have an expanded visitors center dedicated to preserving its story and fame.

Clear Lake on Wednesday held a groundbreaking for the new Music Enrichment and Immersive Center, to be built just to the west of the Surf Ballroom as part of a gateway to what the city calls the Surf District.

In addition to a visitor center, the new, two-story structure will house a ticket office, gift shop, studios for music lessons, conference space, a catering kitchen and an 1,800-square-foot immersive exploratory space to showcase the history behind the north Iowa resort town's claim to fame.

Future Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, along with "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson, performed on their Winter Dance Party Tour at the Surf Ballroom on Feb. 2, 1959. Early the following morning, they were killed when a plane taking off to carry them to their next gig crashed in a snow-covered cornfield on the edge of town.

The 91-year-old venue holds an annual party of the same name to honor the rock legends. The loss of Holly is remembered as “the day the music died," so dubbed by singer Don McLean in his 1971 hit “American Pie.”

The ballroom was officially designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021.

The Iowa Economic Development Authority awarded the planned center a $4.3 million Destination Iowa Grant, and it also will receive a $400,000 Community Attraction and Tourism Grant. Other public and private investment in the project amounts to $35.2 million, and will include a gateway marker for the Surf District over Buddy Holly Place and a link from the ballroom to the lakeshore.

More: Sorry, 'American Pie,' but the music didn't die in Clear Lake. Just ask the fans.

Valens' sister Connie spoke at the ceremony.

"Walking through the doors of the Surf is new every time for me. It's a home away from home," she said. "When I heard about the enrichment center, I thought, yet another portion of the Surf is reaching out to touch different people in the community. To come in and learn what the Surf is all about — that's the music that was played here, is played here and will continue to be played here."

Architecture firm that designed the original Surf Ballroom to work on expansion

Built in 1933 on the north shore of Clear Lake by entrepreneur Carl J. Fox, the original Surf Ballroom was designed by Hanson & Waggoner, a Mason City architecture firm now operating in Clear Lake and Ankeny as ATURA Architecture.

The Surf burned down on April 20, 1947. While it had been sold to Prom Inc. of Chicago, the original developer, Carl Fox, intervened and once again turned to Hanson & Waggoner for design and construction of a new ballroom.

Although it retained its original beach club style, the new Surf had more seating and a larger dance floor. Today, its noted as a well-preserved example of the Moderne style of architecture. Elements of the original Surf will be incorporated into the new center, according to the city.

The center will serve as a starting point for tours of both the ballroom and Fox's preserved home across North Shore Drive.

Under terms of the state grant, the work on the new structure must be completed by mid-2026.

Addison Lathers covers growth and development for the Des Moines metro. Reach her at 608-931-1761 and [email protected], and follow and Twitter at @addisonlathers.

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Norilsk: The city built by gulag prisoners where Russia guards its Arctic secrets

Environmental activists are frustrated by how authorities handled a diesel spill which poured into two Arctic rivers in late May.

International correspondent @DiMagnaySky

Friday 3 July 2020 23:41, UK

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The drive from Norilsk airport to the city takes you past mile after mile of crumbling, Soviet-era factories.

It looks like an endless, rusting scrapyard - a jumble of pipes, industrial junk and frost-bitten brickwork. If you were looking for an industrial apocalypse film setting, this would be your place - but you're unlikely to get the permissions.

Norilsk was built in Stalin's times by gulag prisoners. This gritty industrial city is a testament to their endurance both of the cruelty of Stalin's regime and of the harsh polar climate. There were no thoughts then on how to build to protect the environment, just to survive it.

Vasily Ryabinin doesn't think much has changed, at least in ecological terms. He used to work for the local branch of the federal environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, but quit in June after exposing what he says was a failure to investigate properly the environmental impact of the gigantic diesel spill which poured into two Arctic rivers in late May.

At 21,000 tonnes, it was the largest industrial spill in the polar Arctic .

Despite the Kremlin declaring a federal emergency and sending a host of different agencies to participate in the clean-up, just last week Mr Ryabinin and activists from Greenpeace Russia found another area where technical water used in industrial processes was being pumped directly into the tundra from a nearby tailing pond. Russia's investigative committee has promised to investigate.

"The ecological situation here is so bad," Mr Ryabinin says.

"The latest constructions such as the tailing pond at the Talnack ore-processing plant were built exclusively by Nornickel chief executive Vladimir Potanin's team and supposedly in accordance with ecological standards, but on satellite images you can see that all the lakes in the vicinity have unnatural colours and obviously something has got into them."

Mining company Nornickel would disagree. It has admitted flagrant violations at the tailing pond and suspended staff it deems responsible at both the Talnack plant and at Norilsk Heat and Power plant no 3 where the diesel spill originated from.

On Thursday it appointed Andrey Bougrov, from its senior management board, to the newly-created role of senior vice president for environmental protection. It has a clear environmental strategy, provides regular updates on the status of the spill, and its Twitter feed is filled with climate-related alerts.

But what investors read is very different to the picture on the ground.

Norilsk used to be a closed city - one of dozens across the Soviet Union shut off to protect industrial secrets. Foreigners need special permissions approved by the Federal Security Service (FSB) to enter the region. It would take an invitation from Nornickel to make that happen and, for the past month since the spill, that has not been forthcoming.

Unlike in Soviet times, Russian citizens are now free to come and go. That's why our Sky News Moscow team were able to fly in and travel around the city, even if getting to the spill site was blocked. What they were able to film provides a snapshot of the immense challenge Russia faces in upgrading its Soviet-era industrial infrastructure, particularly at a time when climate change is melting the permafrost on which much of it was built.

Just downwind from one of the rusting factories on the city outskirts is a huge expanse of dead land. The skeletal remains of trees stand forlorn against the howling Arctic winds. Sulphur dioxide poisoning has snuffed the life out of all that lived here. Norilsk is the world's worst emitter of sulphur dioxide by a substantial margin.

"For 80km south of here everything is dead," Mr Ryabinin says, "and for at least 10km in that direction too. Everything here depends on the wind."

Immediately after the spill, Mr Ryabinin filmed and took samples from the Daldykan river just a few kilometres from the fuel tank which had leaked. By that point the river was a churning mix of diesel and red sludge dredged up from the riverbed by the force of the leak. Norilsk's rivers have turned red before and the chemical residues have sunk to the bottom, killing all life there. Nothing has lived in those rivers for decades.

In his capacity as deputy head of the local environmental watchdog, Mr Ryabinin says he insisted that he be allowed to fly further north to check the levels of contamination in Lake Pyasino and beyond.

Nornickel at the time claimed the lake was untouched by the spill. Mr Ryabinin says his boss encouraged him to let things be.

"I can't be sure I would have found anything, but this sort of confrontation - making sure I didn't go there with a camera, let alone with bottles for taking samples, it was all very clear to me. It was the final straw."

Rosprirodnadzor refused to comment to Sky News on Mr Ryabinin's allegations or suggestions that the agency was working hand in hand with Nornickel.

Georgy Kavanosyan is an environmental blogger with a healthy 37,000 following on YouTube. Shortly after the spill, he set out for Lake Pyasino and to the Pyasina River beyond to see how far the diesel had spread.

"We set out at night so that the Norilsk Nickel security wouldn't detect us. I say at night, but they've got polar nights there now, north of the Arctic Circle. So it's still light but it's quieter and we managed to go past all the cordons."

He is one of the few to have provided evidence that the diesel has in fact travelled far beyond where the company admits. Not just the 1,200km (745m) length of Lake Pyasino but into the river beyond.

He says his measurements indicated a volume of hydrocarbons dissolved in the water of between two and three times normal levels. He thinks after he published his findings on YouTube, the authorities' vigilance increased.

Greenpeace Russia have spent the last two weeks trying to obtain samples from Lake Pyasino and the surrounding area. They have faced difficulties getting around and flying their samples out for independent analysis.

They are now waiting for results from a laboratory in St Petersburg but say the samples remain valid technically for just four days after collection and that they weren't able to make that deadline due to the authorities' actively obstructing their work.

Elena Sakirko from Greenpeace Russia specialises in oil spills and says this has happened to her before. This time, a police helicopter flew to the hunter's hut where they were staying and confiscated the fuel for the boat they were using. Then a deputy for the Moscow city parliament tasked with bringing the samples back from Norilsk was forced to go back empty-handed.

"We were told at the airport we needed permission from the security department of Nornickel," Ms Sakirko says. "We asked them to show us some law or statement to prove that this was legal or what the basis for this was, but they haven't showed us anything and we still don't understand it."

Nornickel announced this week that the critical stage of the diesel spill is over. The company is now finalising dates for a press tour for foreign media and for other international environmentalists.

Mr Ryabinin thinks this should have happened weeks ago.

"If we don't let scientists come to the Arctic region to evaluate the impact of the accident, then in the future if anything similar happens, we won't know what to do."

A spokesperson for Nornickel said the company "is actively cooperating with the scientific community and will meticulously assess both the causes and effects of the accident."

Nornickel considers permafrost thawing to be the primary cause of the accident, but is waiting for the end of investigation before making a final statement, the spokesperson said.

They added that the company "accepts full responsibility for the incidents on its sites these past two months and holds itself accountable for any infrastructural deficits or poor decisions by personnel.

"The imperative is to do everything to clean up our sites, instil a stronger culture of transparency and safety in our workforce, and ensure that such situations do not occur in the future."