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An abandoned pool in the middle of Nevada, fed by a mineral warm spring. We didn't dare to take a dip.
Black Mere Pool, in the North Staffordshire Moors near the town of Leek, is the site of what may be the only inland mermaid legend in England. The small, remote hilltop lake, around fifty metres wide, is a particularly haunting site. Set on the craggy and barren southern edge of the Peak District, beside the Leek to Buxton road, it is said that the dark peat-stained waters of the pool are bottomless; cattle refuse to drink there and birds never fly above it. Over the centuries it has been the scene of a number of mysterious drownings and even a murder when, in 1679, a woman pedlar was dumped in the pool by a local serial killer. Tradition holds that the mermaid rises from the pool at midnight to lure unwary travellers to their deaths in the dark watery depths – but only single men, apparently. There are various legends concerning the origin of the mermaid. In one, a sailor from nearby Thorncliff fell in love with her and brought her back from sea, and in another she was originally a witch who transformed herself into a water nymph after been thrown into the pool during the Middle Ages.
This is the infinity pool at ME hotel in Cancun. It was really nice, but we only spent the last night there. It was probably a little too nice actually.
A swimming pool at a hotel in Malaga. I like the contrast of the light and the night and how artificial the scene looks.
Turquoise Pool is a hot spring in Midway Geyser Basin.
The colour blue is so saturated turquoise that on this fine day when I took the image it looks so surreal within the landscape.
The Hayden expedition of 1878 named this pool, Turquoise Pool and so apt it was then and is now!
Black Pool, northern Lower Group, West Thumb Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Hotspot, northwestern Wyoming, USA in August 2011 (looking ~SE).
Black Pool is a very hot, moderately deep, irregularly-outlined, and intensely blue- to deep turquoise-colored. It was formerly a deep greenish-black color, from the presence of yellowish extremophile bacterial mats on the pool walls and floor. Subsequent natural heating of this feature has knocked out most of the bacterial mats. Abundant, suspended, <0.5µ-sized, colloidal silica particles are responsible for the blue coloration of the water.
In 1991 and 1992, Black Pool had atypical activity, coinciding with activity at nearby Abyss Pool (see above). One explosive eruption here in August 1991 involved the forceful detachment and nearby deposition of geyserite clasts. Boiling water domes up to 3 feet high were present in the pool after that eruption, accompanied by significant overflow.
Small eruptions also occurred at Black Pool in 1992.
The above photo shows the edge of Black Pool in August 2011 - nicely formed, loose and coalesced nodules of grayish-colored geyserite are present in the shallowest portions of the Black Pool. The brownish-black areas are bacterial mats.
This is one of my personal favorite of my photos. It was taken in the Dominican Republic about 2 years ago. My son and I traveled there for a week as a college graduation present to myself, this was before I met my husband. We spent a week flopped by the pool, taking photos, and reading books. This was a little peice of joy I got to bring home and frame quite large. :)
he Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the largest of the many reflecting pools in Washington, D.C., United States. It is a long and large rectangular pool located on the National Mall, directly east of the Lincoln Memorial, with the Washington Monument to the east of the reflecting pool.[1] Part of the iconic image of Washington, the reflecting pool hosts many of the 24 million visitors a year who visit the National Mall. It is lined by walking paths and shade trees on both sides. Depending on the viewer's vantage point, it dramatically reflects the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Mall's trees, and/or the expansive sky