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Lone Groover wrote:Victoria Park
Delmont St Xavier wrote:Not according to the guys who put them in some years ago. When they had drained the pond (as they used to do often) they erected these posts - with the intent that it would stop 'boaters' going under the bridge. According the old guy who was putting them in place, the barriers prevented folks jumping out of boats or exchanging boats as they were not visible from the 'pay kiosk'.
I don't know if the above story is true but it wouldn't surprise me.
rico wrote:Lone Groover wrote:Victoria Park
have you seen the horrible way they have blocked these bridges off - a silver metal roadside style railing concreted into the ground across the entrace to the bridge.
Were they unsafe?
Delmont St Xavier wrote:Not according to the guys who put them in some years ago. When they had drained the pond (as they used to do often) they erected these posts - with the intent that it would stop 'boaters' going under the bridge. According the old guy who was putting them in place, the barriers prevented folks jumping out of boats or exchanging boats as they were not visible from the 'pay kiosk'.
I don't know if the above story is true but it wouldn't surprise me.
davadvice wrote:
Yup this was a tactic we used all the time, the Parkies used to chase us to ge the boats back, had some great times in there. i remember being about 13-14 and we got 2 boats with 4 friends I jumped in to the other boad just beside the bridge and capsised it. we all got very wet.
hmm them where the days.
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