batfish
Well-Known Member
In the summer I like to take my kids up to the mountains. We often end up at one of several clear, sandy, kettle ponds in that area. I know that at least two of the ponds were once the sites of grand resort hotels that were built in the 1850’s. I know that these resorts maintained fleets of little boats that their guests could use to paddle around in the ponds.
I was thinking that these ponds might be good places to look for bottles. They’re clear, sandy and not too deep (30-40 feet at the deepest points). The water’s cold, but I can deal with that. I’m worried that, because the ponds tend to be very popular with swimmers, and that they are not large, that anything that was dropped in them over the last century and a half would have been recovered by now.
I don’t know how to scuba dive, but I was considering taking a trip up to one of these ponds, when they warm up a bit, to snorkel and see what I could see along the bottom. Do you think there is a reasonable chance that I would find something? Or is a pond like I describe such an obvious target that it would have been picked over long ago?
I was thinking that these ponds might be good places to look for bottles. They’re clear, sandy and not too deep (30-40 feet at the deepest points). The water’s cold, but I can deal with that. I’m worried that, because the ponds tend to be very popular with swimmers, and that they are not large, that anything that was dropped in them over the last century and a half would have been recovered by now.
I don’t know how to scuba dive, but I was considering taking a trip up to one of these ponds, when they warm up a bit, to snorkel and see what I could see along the bottom. Do you think there is a reasonable chance that I would find something? Or is a pond like I describe such an obvious target that it would have been picked over long ago?