I thought of this topic while walking back to my car after practice on Friday. Can you think of anything that (possibly) makes your pool or its setting unique? Here's my example: there's a fee for parking on campus at the U of Washington, so I park on the street in neighborhood just off campus when I swim there. The walk between the car and the pool involves crossing a drawbridge, so sometimes after practice we are delayed for a few minutes while the drawbridge is up!
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My suburblet has three outdoor pools- one open year-round, and two seasonal pools. The unique one would probably be the 'swamp pool' that's open in the summers. The pool itself is the generic nice 8 lanes x 25 yards with a bathouse done in Creole-style. (ie. looks kind of Cape Cod, but with a big front porch). What's different is the 75 yard boardwalk from pool to parking lot that cuts through wetlands- lots of swamp plants, anoles and other small lizards sunning themselves on the sides of the boardwalk, many a butterfly and small bird hanging out nearby.
The year round pool is an ordinary 4 lane- 25 meter square (original developer was German, so the first two pools he put in were SCM) and is probably most notable for birds- common for raptors to nest in the oak trees nearby, and it's also on the final approach for a lot of Eglin AFB military and civilian traffic. Back when I used to swim mid-mornings, I actually started noticing when Delta's 10:10 flight from Atlanta was arriving later than scheduled.
My suburblet has three outdoor pools- one open year-round, and two seasonal pools. The unique one would probably be the 'swamp pool' that's open in the summers. The pool itself is the generic nice 8 lanes x 25 yards with a bathouse done in Creole-style. (ie. looks kind of Cape Cod, but with a big front porch). What's different is the 75 yard boardwalk from pool to parking lot that cuts through wetlands- lots of swamp plants, anoles and other small lizards sunning themselves on the sides of the boardwalk, many a butterfly and small bird hanging out nearby.
The year round pool is an ordinary 4 lane- 25 meter square (original developer was German, so the first two pools he put in were SCM) and is probably most notable for birds- common for raptors to nest in the oak trees nearby, and it's also on the final approach for a lot of Eglin AFB military and civilian traffic. Back when I used to swim mid-mornings, I actually started noticing when Delta's 10:10 flight from Atlanta was arriving later than scheduled.
