Half way down to Atlantis coming from the Cloisters and the One and Only Ocean Club is a road off Paradise Island Drive that lets you access the resorts on Cabbage Beach. When you turn down this short road, you come to a small pond, slough or as the real estate people say, a small lake. It is an acre or less in size. However it is crammed with aquatic animals.
There are ducks, herons, turtles and big fish in this pond. They are all sustained by the tourists feeding them. Bread is their natural food and diet staple.
What blew me away about the pond is how the ducks compete with the turtles who fight it out with the fish when you throw morsels of bread on the muddy water surface. The other amazing thing is seeing how low in the water that the ducks float.
Examine the photo closely, and you will see most of the body of the ducks are submerged. These are the lowest floating ducks that I have ever seen. I am wondering whether it is because of the type of duck, or the brackishness hence the density of the water or what.
All that I know, is that when a duck floats in the water, it is supposed to look like this:
