May 2010 – Pool opening

Opening the pool after the winter is always an interesting experience, not knowing what state we will find it in always adds a little trepidation as we open the cover. One year we had what can best be descibed as pea soup.

So as the cover slowly opened we were pleased to see that we only had a little algae growth this year and the only unwelcome rubbish was a dead frog.

With a good brush down of the sides and the addtion of some chlorine ‘shock’ tablets the pool looked great a couple of days later:

As inviting as it looks the temperature was 11 degrees when we opend it up, after a few warm days it climbed to 17 (without the heating) and will have been in the low 20’s today. However as I returned to the UK this weekend the pleasure of a swim will have to wait for a few weeks !