Thanks for the kind words.

I’ve met a couple of people in this country who specialise in making swimming ponds, though I think it is actually a world-wide industry now, and quite technical with pumps and gravel filters rather than simply groups of natural ponds.

Mind you, if you’ve got an unpolluted water supply (especially no contamination by farm runoff) and there are no disease sources from sewage, and no crocs, if you make a nice pond you could just swim in it anyway! But I guess you’re also paying for the hard landscaping side too when you do a natural swimming pond.

Two links to people in UK who might have some relevant local contacts for you:
http://www.aqualandscapedesign.co.uk/natural-swimming-pools.asp
http://www.theswimmingpondcompany.co.uk/contact.html

If you’ve got plenty of space could you also make some real wild natural ponds with wildlife in mind? Making clean water pond complexes (like our Million Ponds Project) would create something very like what you have in Australia in billabongs, and groups of temporary ponds and wetlands.

Given the current threats to the Australian water environment you would be doing your bit to counter some serious problems.

Btw I’d be interested to hear more about your patch.

Jeremy

I just wanted to leave a comment, because there did not seem to be many being left. I wanted to let you know that we were out here, reading you, and liking what we read. We have bought a large acreage in Australia, and we want to get a swimming pool built, but we want to link it to a pond system, so that we won’t have to use chemicals. I am reading your blog, looking for info etc. Any links that you could point me to that might be of interest to us would be most appreciated.