The ABC brings word that foul mouthed coaches swearing from leaky two stroke boats at sweaty young athletes might no longer adorn our lake.
Anything we can do about it?
(And spare a though for Canberra’s private schools which, in recent years, have been given large chunks of lake front land and have built extensive boat houses now lying idle.)
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Not much we can do about blue-green algae in the lake.
My heart goes out to the private schools. Maybe they could use their lakefront land for educational purposes instead?
There are rowing elite? How do I enter my wife for the event?
Oh, rowing, not rowing my bad!
Maybe this explains the 3 times daily appearance of 2 rowing teams on the Clyde river from Friday – Sunday just gone ….
Most disconcerting while hungover on a house boat, but the girls liked it …
I reckon if they know the risk and choose to get in good luck to them…
If they can’t stay upright then they really shouldn’t be representing Aus.
AG Canberra said :
Mind you an upside boat really does illustrate down under though.
#1 I agree GB, perhaps their science department may be able to come up with a solution.
Other countries have been controlling BGA outbreaks for years by the simple method of dumping in bales of barley straw.
A bacteria that exists in the straw severly inhibits the growth of BGA.
However I have no idea if the bacteria is native to this land, or whether the BGA here is a strain that could be controlled by this method.
Haven’t encountered any research on the matter though.
If the rowers do have to go, I’d be happy to help them pack and point them in the right direction.