Australians are good swimmers... so how popular is swimming there? If you randomly pick someone from the street in Australia, how likely can he/she swim, or is a good swimmer?
My little curiosity :)
Timely. I just got back from the land down under. I was impressed with the number of swim facilities in just the 2 cities i was in. One had a civic center with an indoor 50m pool a dive pool along with a 'moat' type pool. It was open from 5 - 9 daily. the other city had a 25m pool with regular hours. so my take in my limited vist was that swimming is more accessible to people than it is in the US. swimming in oceans and lakes was a bit limiting right now because of crocs and stingers but i suspect that stingers aren't a problem at other times of the year.
The coolest pool-related thing i saw was in Cairns. They have a public lagoon. It's huge and though it's not deep, they have water aerobics classes and learn to swim classes in it. Most people just use it to cool off!
after my visit, i find it a bit depressing that there is one 50m pool in my city that is open to the public and it's open from memorial day to labor day and only in the 50m direction from 5am-7am in the morning - and most of the time, swim teams use it! Everyone is so lawsuit scared that pools that exist are rarely open.
Timely. I just got back from the land down under. I was impressed with the number of swim facilities in just the 2 cities i was in. One had a civic center with an indoor 50m pool a dive pool along with a 'moat' type pool. It was open from 5 - 9 daily. the other city had a 25m pool with regular hours. so my take in my limited vist was that swimming is more accessible to people than it is in the US. swimming in oceans and lakes was a bit limiting right now because of crocs and stingers but i suspect that stingers aren't a problem at other times of the year.
The coolest pool-related thing i saw was in Cairns. They have a public lagoon. It's huge and though it's not deep, they have water aerobics classes and learn to swim classes in it. Most people just use it to cool off!
after my visit, i find it a bit depressing that there is one 50m pool in my city that is open to the public and it's open from memorial day to labor day and only in the 50m direction from 5am-7am in the morning - and most of the time, swim teams use it! Everyone is so lawsuit scared that pools that exist are rarely open.
