Pond Water

Yesterday I was at a pond and a child (not mine) suggested that said pond was covered with a mesh "to stop the water from jumping out." 

I'm 99% sure that child has never watched the film The Abyss, but that's what I pictured. How I wish it was true. There's something magical about a child's imagination.

Maybe the child had just seen Moana and thought it was a documentary?  There was no heart of the pond lurking beneath as the pond dipping commenced. Just a rather discombobulated looking newt and some frogspawn. 

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