We timed our expedition to coincide with the less-rainy season; nevertheless the trails are treacherous, full of deep ponds and super sticky mud.
It sits deep in a fold of the Downs and can be reached only via a one-and-a-half mile track that winds into the valley via various bumpy cattle grids and deep ponds.
There were several of them close by: dark, deep ponds that had once been quarries; a ruined slipway built to take seaplanes; steel rings that had tethered barrage balloons; an abandoned railway tunnel where bats flew.
His mother, Shahanas Ackter, 28, had asked him to bathe at the standpipe, but, instead he went to the pond behind the house, one of three deep ponds around their property, to play.
Industry officials respond by saying that increasingly -- except where there is ample water in deep ponds, as is the case near Prudhoe -- the roads are not made by spraying water but are built with chipped ice scraped from ponds and laid down like gravel.
Thermal water stratification peaked around 14 00 16:00 h each day; wherein the differences between surface and lower water temperatures in the 0.8 2.0 m deep ponds reached 1.3 4.0 °C.
