Coming soon ...

Thanks for checking out my blog!  In the near future I will begin presenting the sequence of construction of our swim pond, hopefully with enough detail to help others to gather some ideas about designing their own natural swimming pool and to make some judgement about what may or may not work.  I'm sure that, once we've finished, there will be lots of "I wish I would have" reflections ... hopefully none will be major.  I'll be giving specifics on materials used, suppliers, costs, and how things are put together.

In the meantime, above is a photo of the initial excavation.  The bare soil is the approximate overall pond size and the excavated hole in the center will be a 16' x 28' swim area.  The design was loosely based upon an image of a Bionova natural swimming pool I found on the web (see below).  To orient you, our house would be just beyond the right edge of the Bionova image, and is just beyond the lower edge of the first excavation photo above.  That photo was taken (and many of the photos on this blog will have been taken) from an attic window on the north side of our house.  More on the pond design in the next post.