Day 4.354: Five Rivers minus one

We were 'minus two' at Five Rivers today - as only three of us went during the overlap between a late-morning cinema trip for Exile #3 and an early afternoon play-date for Exile #4.

Winter finally has its grip on the place - there really is "THIN ICE" to justify the sign and it was suitably cold despite the lack of snow.

The 'minus one' refers to water courses though.  The icy stream in the top center is the newly engineered consolidated path of a stream that used to largely take a different course into the main pond.  It was dammed rather effectively by beavers this year unfortunately making it rather difficult to keep the trails around the pond passable.  Now it has been redirected spoiling the previous engineering work of the beavers and emptying their elevated water section beside the pond.

I'm glad to be able to walk these trails again but I hope that the beavers are alive and well - by the recent tree-felling I suspect they recently were - and planning their next engineering project.  Perhaps they will wait for some better building weather though.