Through the rubble, as the Old Gaol out-buildings are demolished, I can just about make out a sign…
It says “POOL DEPTH HERE 2.0 m. “
That must be the deep end…
I still find it difficult to work out the geography of this swimming pool from outside, but must have swam many thousands of lengths inside its walls.
To the left is the balcony where there was a bar and people could relax with a drink and look down, at odd moments, at the pool below. In the late evening music played and it was like syncopated swimming.
Further along to the left, next to the KOMATSU, is a balcony from where I watched down as our two children flapped as they tried to swim their first widths near the shallow end …
Those days are just a memory and the building will soon be gone.