High incidence of drownings this year

[Kenj]

I learned to swim in the late 1940's when my older sister pushed me off a jetty in the Whau estuary that went into New Lynn. I dog paddled around to the shore and ran to the end and pushed her in. Revenge.... ha ha! We both became quite proficient swimmers from there on. Aah, those were the days. Just a bunch of kids, a muddy tidal creek and no adults. We swam there for many years. I look on Google Maps now and can't even see where that was, progress, I suppose?

Ken