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On Monday morning, 24 August - I checked out Oatley baths, and found that the broken pole now has an orange cone to signal danger.
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| Orange 'danger' cone on broken mooring pole |
Renegade turning boards are a continual problem for the swimming club. The first one, in the 1930s, was a permanent wooden fixture that lasted for many years - though repaired regularly. This eventually collapsed.
They then tried a floating pontoon made up of 40 gallon drums, which lasted a couple of years until it too collapsed. Next was an electric light pole that members had chopped down, but to their surprise, it did not float. Eventually the Council supplied a couple of steel pontoons until they rusted away.
Photo (date unknown) below records the last moments of one former turning board...
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