Swan, and vast quantities of geese, not to mention a bunch of gawky teenage swans moulting their baby fluff on the bank!
The Lido is just an Olympic-pool-sized section of the lake marked off with buoys, so the local wildfowl wander in and out and are completely unfazed by swimmers.
I got to be right underneath a flight of geese doing a takeoff from the water, which was unexpectedly awesome.
And the swan hung out in the middle of the pool, preening its feathers and being HUGE, with all the swimmers detouring round it.
There were also shoals of tiny tiny fish; if I sat very still in the shallows, they would swim round me and occasionally nibble me in case I was a loaf of bread.
no subject
The Lido is just an Olympic-pool-sized section of the lake marked off with buoys, so the local wildfowl wander in and out and are completely unfazed by swimmers.
I got to be right underneath a flight of geese doing a takeoff from the water, which was unexpectedly awesome.
And the swan hung out in the middle of the pool, preening its feathers and being HUGE, with all the swimmers detouring round it.
There were also shoals of tiny tiny fish; if I sat very still in the shallows, they would swim round me and occasionally nibble me in case I was a loaf of bread.