Discovering and exploring a pond

17th April. When we met Alison on our Priest's Gyhll Expedition she mentioned they had walked up from a pond in and out of which the River Keekle flows. When I lived in Moresby and before the 3 younger children were born we would often walk through Walkmill and out along the"Plastic River" aka the Keekle. We would usually stop at the stone bridge mentioned into a previous post and then turn back. Sometimes we might continue on and come out at the end of the path and walk back via the road. Although for a time the end of this path was closed off by a local resident. Another local resident fought to have it reopened. Only once had I continued on following the Keekle rather than the main path. I had been rewarded by the suprise discovery of a lovely pond. For years I had not returned as it is a long walk for little ones. Alison mentioned the pond could be accessed from the other end so on this day we drove and parked up ready for our adventure. To get to the pond we had to go through trees and undergrowth and cross a stream or maybe it was actually the Keekle itself leaving the pond! Need to have good look at a map as in all there are 3 ponds with a number of different waterways flowing to them. I have heard during our subcommittee meetings with the Parish Council and West Cumbria Rivers Trust that the pond was used when the area was used for open cast mining. More to learn there. The children were excited to see the pond appear. There were a number of birds on the pond including a pair of nesting swans on the far side. We saw where the Keekle entered a pond and also saw some of the plastic liner which seemed to have been washed down the Keekle and deposited there.