I took this photograph last Saturday lunchtime. Can you guess what it is?
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July 27, 2009
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Algae on a pond / some other sort of pond weed?
Posted by: Katie Le Ruez | July 27, 2009 at 04:25 PM
A layer of unattractive greenery under which I'm guessing there is a nice canal or pond? Right?
Posted by: Ben | July 27, 2009 at 04:28 PM
Is it a pond? It looks like a pond. Specifically, it looks like the pond (that looked like a lawn) that I tried to walk on in Brittany in 1994. I learned a lot about ponds that day.
Posted by: Gary Dunion | July 27, 2009 at 04:30 PM
You're all doing jolly well. Carry on!
Posted by: DaveHill | July 27, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Is it the surface of Clapton Pond, Dave?
Posted by: Michael Hanley | July 27, 2009 at 04:48 PM
Some water in Clissold Park?
Posted by: Gordon Hodgson | July 27, 2009 at 04:56 PM
i'm voting river lea navigation. it gets gunked up down there quite often, in different parts depending on the wind direction. somewhere between, i would guess, your house and the olympic site, since that's where - i think - your guardian blog indicated you actually were on saturday.
process of elimination, of course. you could have hopped on a train at stratford or something and gone to the ponds on hampstead heath just to make this whole exercise that little bit more difficult, but i doubt it...
Posted by: omnibolg | July 27, 2009 at 05:44 PM
Perhaps Dave went punting...
http://bit.ly/8m8iU
Posted by: Dan | July 27, 2009 at 06:32 PM
And the winner is....omnibolg!
Now, about that star prize....
Posted by: DaveHill | July 27, 2009 at 08:48 PM
I was down at the River Lea on Sunday and thought it looked quite clear. Is it benefiting from Olympic dredging? Hope so.
Posted by: James Cherkoff | July 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM
My guess was going to be Clapton Common's ponds - my girlfriend said she saw them being cleared out a few days ago, but the algae appeared to be winning again last night.
Posted by: Martin | July 28, 2009 at 01:12 PM
Oh dear. Didn't see this blog in time to take part. My guess would actually have been astro turf, so would not have been correct .... I thought it looked more like very very closed cropped grass or astro turf!
I've just moved into the Clapton area so will try to keep up with this blog on the right days in future!
Posted by: Shantybang | July 28, 2009 at 01:53 PM
It's not algae - it's a covering of duckweed, probably lemna minor. Duckweeds are the smallest members of the family of flowering plants. They are very bio-friendly, since they reduce evaporation, provide cover for various animal species, such as frogs and newts, and are excellent water cleansers - they take up excess nitrates and other chemicals. Removing it might look tidier, but it removing a natural cleansing mechanism from the surface of the water. How little the people of this island know about their environment.
Posted by: Tendryakov | August 02, 2009 at 05:36 PM