The car park is close to a paddling pool and model yacht pond.
The Common includes Hawthorns Urban Wildlife Centre on the former site of Southampton Zoo, a paddling pool and several lakes and ponds.
Outside the museum Palestinian families, summer camp groups and boisterous teenagers from all over the West Bank come to enjoy one of the few open spaces in urban Palestine, complete with a large playground, mini-amusement part, paddle boat pond and even some living zoo animals.
Ducks paddled on ponds that had once been farmland.
As to being a park, this is not a place where adults or children could walk a dog, jog, have picnics, paddle in ponds, play on swings, kick a ball, build snowmen, or sunbathe.
Cairene families mark the festival of Sham al-Naseen with picnics, and thousands of them were spread out on the lawns, paddling in the pond, or watching the whirling dervishes spin and thrump their tambourines.
Today, the girls still swim in Moose Pond, paddle the Saco River, climb mountains and build campfires.
Swarms (or is it schools?) of liberated pet turtles paddle about the pond under MORNINGSIDE PARK's several-stories-high waterfall, north of 110th Street in Morningside Heights.
Another painting shows the frog clinging to the dog's head as the dog paddles across a pond and charmingly suggests the trusting relationship between them.
Another hidey-hole on this six-acre family smallholding, this little wooden hut on the edge of a pond paddled by rare-breed ducks is a waterfowl-watcher's dream.
