Welsh Harp NW4

Now! I have been looking forward to this one, so it was off to the usual early start & parked up the West Hendon side of the bridge. Now this water was originally put in place as a top up for the canal system back in 1835 & was originally called Kingsbury Reservoir. After being built, it was used over the years for many cycle races & many types of water sport. Many of these events where based at the Welsh harp Pub & this being the reason why the water has always been known locally as the welsh harp. Its now called Brent reservoir & is owned jointly by the boroughs of Brent & Barnet & is mainly used for sailing & as a wild life area.
Now i can’t quite put my finger on it, but i started off the walk to the larger side of water & headed off down a good gravel track & within a few yards there was a viewing platform that's very handy for the twitters. But then the path lead off about 20/30yards away from the water in what felt like a tree lined tunnel. Now i realise that you don't want the path to close to the waters edge because of protecting the wild life. But with much of this walk it was grabbing snippets of the water rather than a view. This was the same on the other side of the bridge in the area that head off to some sports fields. Now if your not expecting a walk along the water in all areas, it a nice enough walk, but will return at a later date to makes sure it wasn't just me on the day expecting to much. It could also do with a well signed single loop for the whole of the 2 area's.
Not sure why there is a fishing ban here. But presumably its to do with the wild life. But one of the areas that i got close to the water near some reads & rushes, there was 4 massive carp cleaning themselves on the reeds near the waters surface.