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...
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.
