Wow! This actually happened? Looks like Google Maps hasn't been updated for a while around there ( which is probably a good thing ). Somebody either pulled the plug and drained it all or you have been waking above one of the world's most giant s(t)inkholes ;^)
Yeah! It was yesterday. The water was a little silty pile of ,mud in the middle. Weirdly though, we passed an overflow pond which was half full and yet there was no overflow. Maybe there is some sinkhole'age thing going on! Now I will have to check Google maps and see the no doubt verdant lushness!
Perhaps you found a Scottish version of a Fata Morgana but this one is only visible from Google Maps, as soon as you actually go there, it's midges, dead fish, cracked earth and so on. Not very pretty unless you manage to enjoy the beauty of imperfection.
Good lord. having just looked at the images on google maps Ithink that may very well be the case! It looks like some lush tropical (as tropical as it can get in Scotland) paradise!
A Fata Morgana it is.
Do you remember a drink called Punica?
I do not. Was it was an alcoholic drink?
No, a late 80s 'tropical' kids drink,
The TV commercial showed a man crawling through the desert, begging for 'Punica'. Reminds me of Summer holidays in the South of France.
Lol. I don't think they had it here. They did have an awful tropical drink in which the advert and name was pretty racist, Um Bongo they called it. Truly it was a different time!