Fish Pond
Wednesday, 7th February 2007 by James Turnbull
There's an odd fish-shaped clearing in the forest just outside the Dutch city of Ommen.
However, even using my best Google searching abilities, I can't find any information on whether or not the clearing is a natural phenomena or a man-made advert for a great fishing spot.
If it is a fishing spot then we could say there's both fish in the pond and pond in the fish 😀
Thanks: koen L
Hmm… http://www.goldfischli.de/index.php?action=produkte
Haha! Free advertising if the above comment is anything to go by.
Judging from the info on this site, the pond (named zeeserven) appears to be natural. A “ven” is a type of pond found in natural areas in this part of the netherlands, but I wouldn’t really know the english word.
A “ven” is a “fen” in English.
“low land that is covered wholly or partly with water unless artificially drained and that usually has peaty alkaline soil and characteristic flora (as of sedges and reeds)”, says Merriam-Webster online (www.m-w.com).
You can translate “ven” also as ‘mere’ ‘pool’ or (US south) ‘glade’. Here you go.
And I’s say the other shapes are jellyfishes 🙂
It’s the snack that smiles back, until you bite its head off… poor goldfish crackers…
What is type of vegatation of a “ven”? It looks rather “muck” like and not deep at all. Does this support any stable fish populations?
just a coincedence mabey. looks like theres a pond or something in there. hmmmmm… I wonder if there are actually fish in there