Caribbean Ponds – Austin Bunton Designs

These are the first bodies of water newcomers will notice upon entry into the surface side of Inisfree.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Dimensions & Layout
Special Features
Rentals
Novels Excerpt
Area on the Clay Model (Images Begin)
Overall Color-scheme
Water
Floats
Underneath
Night Here
2023 Update: 2022 Scale-model in Minecraft

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Introduction:

These are the two ponds next to the foundation of Arch City. Like Inisfree’s main lake, they resemble the Caribbean Sea due to their soft turquoise color range, shallowness, and pale sands. Within a couple hundred feet of one edge of the Welcoming Square, these ponds are a favorite attraction for cooling off, initial swimming and skinny-dipping demonstrations, and just lying on their shoreline and watching their subtly bioluminescent floors twinkling like soft starlight behind thin, beige colored clouds.

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Dimensions & Layout:

Both of these ponds are inverted half ellipsoids (upside-down domes); elliptical (ovals) on their surface (how they are shaped), and smoothly round along their floors, gradually reducing their slope from all sides of their shoreline in toward their center and lowest point.

The pond nearest the Welcoming Square has a surface area which measures nearly 860 feet along its long axis, and nearly 730 feet along its short axis (627,800 ft²), while the other pond’s surface area, almost circular, measures nearly 920 feet along its long axis, and about 800 feet along its short axis (736,000 ft²).

Both of these ponds reach a maximum depth of 20 feet right at their centers, giving them an average slope of just over one vertical foot per 20 lateral feet; for every 20 feet one walks and wades out from the shoreline toward the center, they would also be descending one foot down into the water. By the time an average human-sized woman got about 110 feet from the shore, her head would be barely under the surface of the pond she was in.

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Special Features:

As mentioned above, these ponds are slightly bioluminescent in that if one was to look at them closely during a day with low sunlight, and especially during a day with low moonlight and low auroral activity, one would be able to see that the sand on their floors, and a bit along their shorelines, faintly sparkles like sporadic starlight-style fiber optics. This effect is similar to Christmas lights on timers and randomizers with a fade-off-and-on setting.

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Rentals:

Smaller watercraft are those used on these smaller bodies of Inisfreean water. Guests and residents may use slower, simpler vessels such as inner-tubes, inflatable-ring trampolines, the hovercraft version of jet-skis, and so forth.

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Novels Excerpt:

After eating their fill, the other tour group returned to the shuttle to see some more. Auz invited Lucifera to check out one more place before it was time to unwind, relax, and get ready for bed; Arch City, one of the ‘suburbs’ within Inisfree. Their white limo’ returned, and carried them the rest of the way; back along the Glowing Art Highway they were driven, seeing the meadows, the Flower Towers, the Library of Congress II, the Three Trumpeters and the Welcoming Square, the Earthships neighborhood (and Waterfall City high above the other apartments of that section of the central mountain’s slope), the Performing Arts Center, Liberty High School, and finally… two sky-blue ponds big enough for many boats, yet shallow enough for the safe swimming and free-diving of all.

Auz dove right into the closest of those two ponds the moment after he’d offered his hand to politely help Lucifera back out of their limo’. Swimming around happily and skillfully, he was soon greeted by several others who’d already arrived and started their underwater adventure games there. He hugged them where they floated on the surface with him, then asked them to swim over to the sandy shore where he’d introduce them to his new guest and friend.

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Area on the Clay Model: