Hyde Park is huge, and at one end of it is this pond. There are hundreds of ducks and other birds, and the benches along the edge are popular during the lunch hour. We brought our lunches to a have a picnic in the park. After 15 minutes of waling looking for an empty bench next to the water, we gave up and moved inward on one of the winding paths.
We found a nice bench that encircled a tree down the path on the left in the picture. A few hundred feet away was a large rock with text carved into it. Kevin went up to look at and it and reported that it was a gift from Norway in honor of the British troops that served in WWII. The British were obviously very thankful for the memorial boulder to have put it in a place of such prominence - on a random path somewhere in the middle of Hyde Park.
No need for those boats here!
I love this picture - those feathers are just so beautiful. That duck knows it too, that why it takes care to maintain perfect grooming!
This mother and her two kids were just too cute. They had made little paper boats and brought them along to put in the pond. I hesitated to take the picture at first because I didn't want to seem like a creeper, but once we got further away they didn't notice me and I couldn't resist.
There are several sections with nice gardens. Here you also see the winding paths that twist and turn all through the park. Around the perimeter there is one big straight path for runners and bikers, as well as a dirt path presumably for horseback riding, but I'm not sure.
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