Thanks man, I know! The leaf one was really cool. Very basic but as well some interesting component to it!
The lake isn't "protected" in the sense that you can't do anything around it, there are numerous houses and stuff. The environmental agency though has taken more interest to make sure that the habitat of the lake isn't destroyed though, so in a way yes.
Yeah some people use drones around here. We don't own one so we can't do that but eventually it would be cool to grab a drone!