We Built a Backyard Beach!! #pond #life $2000 Home Improvement DIY Project your kids will love!!

This is how i built a beach in my backyard and didn't get kicked out of the neighborhood.... yet LOL!

I was literally born on the Bayou. I grew up in a house on the River Bank of North Louisiana where Bayou D 'Arbonne meets the Ouachita River and growing up our favorite thing to do was go swimming. Every kid hates to walk into a pond or river through muddy banks and every mom hates muddy feet tracking up the house so the only solution is to put in a beach. The turtles love it too and my kids have to be careful not to dig up the turtle eggs. The paddle boards and kayaks have a place to live up on the bank and they don't kill the grass. The local ducks pick up the sand and eat it so it will get trapped in their gizzards (which is basically their teeth) and help them chew food. It was such a great addition to our backyard and it was really very easy to do. We started by putting down landscaping material (link below) and staking it into the ground with landscaping stakes (link below). Then we screwed a few 2x6s into each other for the boundary and I staked them into the ground. Honestly the boundary can be nothing or as fancy as you want it. Then we started dumping sand. The sand is going to naturally wash down into the pond and create a sand entry down 5-10' into the pond and it will continue to wash out and need to be replenished every couple of years. Maybe more if you have a steep grade like i do. I actually had to dig a trench around it and put in 4" drainage to move the water so it wouldn't catch all of the runoff from my yard. That is the main purpose of the back stopped to cause rain water to go around the beach instead of through it. I can promise you that if you put a beach your kids will swim in your pond 100% more (whether swimming is allowed by the HOA or not). Kids don't usually read HOA contracts lol! Another addition to our house is the turtle log. My Bama (grandmother on dads side) always had a turtle log in her back yard and once I finally got my first house on the water I had to have a turtle log. The turtles use it to sun and digest their food and the ducks use it to sleep at night. Sometimes 5 or 10 ducks will sleep on our log.

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