Dalgate is very much "the" tourist centre of the city. Dalgate market and all the shops along the boulevard that faces the water are there to service the houseboats and the hotels. Our hotel is along a street that runs at right angles to the boulevard facing the houseboats up at the end of the lake. I guess all those hotels have been built on landfill pushed into the lake to create more dry land to build on. Lately the government has accepted a large loan from the World Bank to clean up Dall Lake and some of those buildings next to the water are scheduled for demolition. Dall Lake is a rather small, very shallow lake and pollution from the large numbers of buildings on the shore, the many houseboats floating in the middle and the floating gardens behind them are endangering it. I noticed a great deal of blue green algae blooms just under the surface waiting to pop up on shakira rides around the lake.