First stop in Cairns was the Lagoon. A publicly provided man made "swimming hole". A great place for Aquatic rugby league (note how competitive Dad is ready to stop at nothing to prevent tries being scored) but two things brought this game to a halt. One was a reprimand from the lifeguard that balls were not allowed, killjoy, then a few minutes later Alex spotted something else that wasn't allowed in the pool....
This set off an interesting chain of events which we watched keenly. First of all the offending article had to be fished out and here are the lifeguards debating what to do next. Flags, bollards and chemicals then got brought out. To rubber stamp the severity of the situation they then posted an overweight security guard to stop people diving in to the marked off area. The show was over for us so were off to find new sources of water play but not before overhearing a good example of Aussie succinctness as the guard was asked why the area had been cordoned off:
"Oh, someone's s*** in the pool." was the swift response
Man made water holes? Why not use the beach? For beach in Cairns read " Impressive Mangrove Wetlands" or sludgy swamp if you want another example of succinctness. This stretch of "beach" even has a dubious outlet pipe.
Aware of its weaknesses though Cairns has tried hard to provide alternatives and just down the esplanade from the now logless lagoon we found a good waterpark where the kids pretended to wee, give themselves enemas, shoot water up their swimsuit legs and all sorts of other things that we might liked to have joined in with but public decency laws would not allow. Although as the securtiy man was busy we might have got away with it.
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