The lakes in the Dzūkija groves are small, hidden in
the thickets of the forest. The lakes of Bakanauskų, Trikampio, Kastinio and
others similar to them, often regularly round or oval, appeared much later,
when the glaciers retreated, the climate grew considerably warmer and the lumps
of ice buried by permafrost melted down. Many lakes are already rather
overgrown with weeds and hardly accessible. There are more of them in the
valleys in the north-western part of the park. The route of the waters of the
melting glaciers is marked by the cascade of Gelovinės, Gilšės, Kampinio,
Pakelinio and Linmarko Lakes. The lakes of Giluišio, Balažerio, Netiesio,
Netiesėlio, Dumblinio and Pakampio, as if strung on a light-blue vein of the
Kempė rivulet, appeared in the period of early floods of the Nemunas. The
narrow and deep lakes of Galvinio and Bedugnio with steep slopes, or Lizdų
Lake, the largest in the park, which lies among the hills, are already
reminiscent of Aukštaitija landscapes.