Natural Pools - Natural Swimming Pools and Swimming Ponds

Very nice, but what kind of pumping/filtration system do these require?

Hey that's my idea! I think I was in middle school when I doodled up a version of these. Of course my idea was quickly forgotten when I learned about the all chemicals used to keep more conventional pools clean. But, I remember wondering why natural ponds were safe and chlorine pools were safe, why couldn't constructed natural pools be made safe.

As to filtration - what filtration does a kettle pond have?

Heh, most people probably don't know what a kettle pond is. That's a very Cape Cod term. I've never heard it used anywhere else.

I appreciate their beauty,
but (call me a wimp) the temperature
of a pool has something to do with my enjoyment of it.

I surmise that the temperature of the water is also natural.




David

Hey fishin - There are kettle ponds anywhere that the glaciers scraped deep pock marks into the earth, yes? The term is used in all of MA and also NH.

Is he fishin in those ponds ?

They do exist! They're all over the northern half of North America I guess. Most places just call them something else. The lake I live on is a kettle pond but the town calls it a "self-sustaining retention pond". (Whatever the heck that means! )

I think it gets muddled when you have a mix of true kettle ponds and other ponds. I read somewhere a while back that all of the ponds on the Cape are true kettle ponds so maybe that's why it sticks so much down there?

I get the town's descriptive term. Kettle ponds are not (or are not necessarily) moving water - no spring in, no leakage out). Yet they somehow sustain water levels (rainfall only in some cases?) and their own ecology.

Anyway - all ponds on the Cape aren't kettles, I don't think. Though the ponds that aren't that I can think of, are man-made and usually involve us mucking around with the natural salt-water inlets.

Here's another collection of natural pool photos:

http://www.rinrobyn.com/natural-pools-gallery.php