SOUNDS OF NATURE: AT THE LAKE is supposed to be an environmental recording of ambient lake sounds designed for relaxation. Unfortunately, the recording is spoiled by the unnecessary manmade sounds of someone rowing a boat---recorded from inside the boat with its hollow echoing sound---so that the calm and natural lake sounds are interrupted by the bumping and sliding of aluminum oars and the sound of disturbed water, and lastly, the sound of the oarsman coming to dock and clumping away from the microphone. Since the sound loop is only about 5 minutes long and the disc is an hour we get treated to this disruption repeatedly. While it's not an outboard motor, there's just no reason it had to be included in a "Sounds of Nature" CD.There are undoubtedly better environmental CDs available.