One summer I swam in a stream pond in the second curve of an oxbow in ... settled into a sandy beach on the shallow bank. You could swim all day against the current and never get anywhere.

This gorgeous swimming pool isn’t a typical chlorine-filled watering hole–it’s actually a natural swimming pond that relies on plants to filter the water. (Don’t worry, you’re not ...

And quite right, too; few sights are more guaranteed to disrupt a bucolic view. There’s a much simpler solution: the natural swimming pond. With dragonflies glinting on the reeds and waterlilies ...