Mořské oko

Beautiful place in the middle of nature

Shelter, fireplace, marked hiking trail, you can easily get there by bike from Karlovice on the forest asphalt. Nice trip to nature, I recommend. :)

Nice lake, nice view. Unfortunately, people bathed there despite the ban on swimming, some even rode motorcycles there. ? On the way we collected raspberries, we saw a viper and various lizards, a falcon flew overhead. ?

It's completely cool there. Beautiful view far and wide, there is a sitting area and a fireplace, but access to the water is very poor, not modified. The water is purely clear, although at first glance black, but it is caused through the bottom of the slate.

Nice walk.

A beautiful place, once a beautiful walk through the woods, now it is a plain

The Karlovice lake, called the Sea Eye, did not originate in a natural way. At the end of the 19th century, there was a slate quarry, which is now flooded. Karlovice slate was of very high quality and was exported to Moravia, Prussia and Galicia. The cubic meter of the local slate weighed about 2,000 kg and the workers had to take it downhill to the station. It was the hardest in the winter in the snow. The end of mining was made by a strong spring, which the workers encountered before the Second World War. The quarry was flooded by thousands of cubic meters of water. Swimming and boating are not allowed in the pond. It is said among the people that a German tank is sunk at the bottom. However, this reputation is not based on the truth, at the bottom is only the torso of the Škoda 1201 sedan, which someone has parked here for a long time, and many tree trunks. The water depth is about 16 meters. From the animals you can see newts, divers, dragonflies, punches or snakes. A wooden shelter restored in 2008 by the forest administration of the town of Krnov serves for relaxation. You can get to Mořský ok from Karlovice along the marked yellow tourist route, or more conveniently by car from Karlovice along the road II / 452, then turn right towards Staré Purkartice and Krnov and then walk along the marked tourist route from the saddle at Kamenná bouda (most of the route along the contour forest road).