u/Heavy_Ingenuity1371

Hi, I was walking down the red river valley walk, obviously it ends at a gate that is private which is unfortunate. Not long before the end I noticed there is a path that goes off to the right.

Had a little wander and came across a beautiful area.

There were no private signs or anything going in. Looks like it had been done up a few years ago and then left abandoned. There were two large ponds, a couple small bridges and various overgrown things.

There was a pheasant release pen above the ponds that doesn't look like it has been touched in at least a year or two, definitely no pheasants in it anymore. The pheasant pen specifically did say private on it which made me think the ponds area was public but I wasn't sure.

I wasn't too nosey and didn't look around too much, there were multiple old paths and dirt roads there.

Was just curious if anyone knows about the area? Never heard anyone mention it before, the path to it was quite obvious too. Wonder if some farmer decided to fancy up a corner of their land and just left it to overgrow for whatever reason.

Apologies if not the right place to post this. I don't really know anything about marine things. Thought this was interesting.

Anyway it seems like it's head is severely decomposed/almost melted? Can't even really make out any features. Whereas the rest of it looks like it has only just died. Curious on why this may be.

Of course our theory is navy supersonic weapons testing lmao but I'm sure it's something more typical about decomposition or something that would specifically eat that area and leave the blubber.