Happy snaps: our favourite photos

Our 90th Anniversary Reunion 1927-2017 on Saturday 11 November 2017.

Our 90th reunion was a lively gathering of people we did not recognise with their clothes on...

We usually see each other by the river in our cossies and goggles and wet hair.  So - when we dress up, we look damn fine.

 






 





 





 



 

Cronulla wins the 2017 Harold Belcher trophy

Hardy swimmers winning their race on a cold and windy wet day

Oatley Amateur Swimming Club in its first year, 1927

A healthy membership for the club's first year, 1927.  Thanks to Barney for this photo.  His dad, John Bruce Stevens, was three at the time. Also in this group is Ray Stevens, our long time president, who was then about 5 years old. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Oatley Swimming club and Bondi's little mermaid

Our swimming club, in its modest corner of Oatley Baths, has had a wide reach across Sydney.

Our Val, a member of the club since she was a teenager, can boast that she swam in the same race as the model who posed for the sculpture of Bondi's Little Mermaid.   (It is not known who won.) 

The sculpture is no longer sitting on that rock on Bondi Beach, tho the rock itself remembers her, and is still called Mermaid Rock.

Here's what the Australian Women's Weekly wrote on 1 June, 1960...

 According to the Waverley Library website, you can visit one of the little mermaids in the library...