QuickTime Panoramic Upstream (12)

Viewed from the South the stream meanders past the pond constructed at Meadowbrook. Your browser must have a plugin to view panoramic scenes. The QuickTime plugin can be obtained by clicking here: get plugin. (Be sure to install it after downloading). If your school district filters sites using a proxy and you can't get a complete download from apple then dowload the two QUICKTIM files at this link.

Click on this thumbnail to walk along Barton Creek.
(Sorry about the line down the middle. I am experimenting with panoramics and ended up with a 360 degree view instead. If you zoom out and scroll left, it won't be quite so bothersome).

Some questions to consider:
1 Scroll left from the culvert entry past the outlet from the pond to the spot where the three cottonwood trees on the south bank (foreground) block your view of the stream. If you were fish, which section of this stream would you inhabit? Why?

2. Scroll left from the three cottonwood trees on the south bank past Tree Island. Continue to scroll past the concrete drain until you return to the bothersome dividing line in the panoramic. You saw several large rocks in your walk. Some near the bank by the drain are quite flat, sharp and irregular. Others in the stream are rounded and smooth. How do you think the flat, irregular rocks came to be here? How do you think the rounded and smooth rocks came to be here? If you were trying to make the stream look more natural, which would you remove?

3. Notice all the trees overhanging the North bank. Remember that the sun will shine from the South in the Summer. How do you think the trees affect the fish in the stream? Even though there few trees on the South bank, how would a fish find shaded water there?

You can discuss these questions and others about Pond Ecology at Pond Talk.