Welcome to the world of natural swimming ponds!
If you ask Wikipedia, "A natural swimming pool or natural swimming pond (NSP) is a system consisting of a constructed body of water, where the water is contained by an isolating membrane or membranes,…
Just add fish!
Our Natural Swimming Pond Build: The Last Post!
If you’ve followed this blog from the beginning, you’d be forgiven for thinking that I perhaps never got to finish our pond because of the brain eating amoeba. Alas, nearly…
How to build your own natural plunge pool!
With all that we've written about natural swimming ponds, it’s easy to look at some of the photos and assume that natural swimming ponds only suit large yards. Nothing could…
A natural pond designed and built by BioNova
Build your own natural swimming pond – The Basics
Last week I covered the basics of natural ponds and the many reasons you might consider either installing one or converting an existing conventional pool. If you didn’t catch the…
Is a natural swimming pond the solution to swimming pool headaches?
If you’ve got a pool, you know the routine. Everyone’s happy to use it but you’re the bunny that has to maintain it! Doesn’t it make you wonder that while…
Brain-eating Amoeba and other possibilities
If you've followed this blog from the start (a big thanks for that), you'll know that it has been a long series of holes being dug and then being filled…
Our Natural Swimming Pond Build: The day the pond got car jacked
We've certainly had our 'moments' during this project. It started as an idea, became a dream and at times came close to becoming a nightmare. But three daughters asking 'can…
Our Natural Swimming Pond Build: Boys and their Toys
OK - it's been a while! But before I could continue with the latest antics of our swimming pond project, I had to take a deep breath. Why? Because although…
Our Natural Swimming Pond Build: Sand, Cement, Water and one very irate woman!
Well, well, well - three holes in the ground. (OK - so it's an old and tired joke). Actually, we just have one very big hole in our yard, with…
Our Natural Swimming Pond Build: The (W)hole Disaster Concludes…
Even if you've been paying close attention as you've followed my journey into the unknown, you're forgiven if you've lost track of where I'm at. Even I've lost track of…
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