I have a newly renovated pond with an island in the middle. It was so wet in the bottom of the pond when I cleaned it out myself could not push all the mud up and out so just ended up pushing up a small island. You could say it was by default rather than by design. It does grow up to weeds and gets no maintenance, but in my case this is not my main house pond and is in the middle of our farm so it is more of our "a- la-natural" pond so it is fine.
That is one thing our NRCS guy told us about island - how do you get there to mow or maintain??. We wanted an island in our main pond and decided against it for that reason.
The floating dock as mentioned I think would be the ticket. Not as cool looking than a well maintained island, but no swiming across to mow!
snrub
Last edited by snrub; 10/28/13 07:27 AM.
