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[gargoyle]

A swimming pool would be good!

[Alan]

[Alan]

[gargoyle]

Right, so you think none of the families with young kids living on Lamma would use a swimming pool?

That they would prefer to continue to travel to HK Island on weekends to visit public pools there?

I know you are happy to swim in the sea, Alan, you have told us this many times. But some people prefer not to swim in polluted seas and would rather swim in a pool. Whether you agree with this preference or not, it is a fact that some people feel this way.

[Alan]

[gargoyle]

The HK government uses out of date pollution standards. The graph would look very different if they used WTO standards.

[Alan]

[gargoyle]

As far as I am aware no raw sewage is pumped into municipal pools and there are no tankers or other ships sailing in these pools. So it seems to me quite obvious that a municipal pool is less polluted that the sea, although I agree the chlorine levels are sometimes eye wateringly high.

Alan, whether we agree on pollution standards or not, teh fact remains that many residents of Lamma do not wish to swim in the sea and these people may enjoy the facility of a swimming pool on Lamma.

I understand that you are not one of those people. Can you please understand that people with different views from you also have a right to express those views.

[gargoyle]

Oh and I meant the WHO, not the WTO. Apologies for the error.

[Alan]

[Alan]

[gargoyle]

Alan, I give up. It's obviously impossible to have a civil conversation with you as you attack my every statement.

Rather immoderate for a moderator.

[Alan]

[Lamma-Gung]

Guys, guys! I leave my home office for a few hours - biking to and from a late lunch in Mo Tat Wan Village - and there's another heated debate raging.

Can't we just agree to disagree? Can we hear from other people about their opinions? The questionnaires hand3d out this Saturday in front of Spicy Island allow you to tick "Swimming Pool" as one of several new infrastructures for Yung Shue Wan. Let's see what the results of this survey will be and how many percent actually would like a swimming pool.

My Personal Trainer also recommends me to start swimming regularly, besides all the hiking, biking, gym and yoga. But I've never ever ventured into the seas around Lamma yet, loving swimming pools myself for many other good and valid reasons, not being worried about the water pollution much myself. I should try swimming in the sea soon, I might actually like it.

I'll be ticking "Yes" on that questionnaire myself, but everybody is entitled to their own opinions, likes and preferences.

But the Lammarina infinity swimming pool, Lamma's first pool, will probably be finished long before, years before we'd ever get a public swimming pool, if ever. Maybe there'll be a way to get in there for a fee as it'll probably hardly be ever used by the few Lammarina residents...

[Yogesh]

If you need to go to a swimming pool very badly, you can go to public swimming pools at Kennedy Town / Morrison Hill / Wong Chuk Hang.

[Lamma-Gung]

That's a long way just to cool off and swim for half an hour, I wouldn't do it.
I went to swimming pools when living on HK Island.

It's the same reason I signed up for the Island Gym, convenience, even though I could go to a much bigger and better gym in town for almost the same monthly rate. But I wouldn't travel to town 2-3 times a week just to visit a gym or a swimming pool. If it's close then people will use it much more frequently. It works for the gym in my case and I've been a regular for months now, even though I've never been in a gym in my life till last year.

But as it's pretty unlikely that we'll ever get a local swimming pool, I'll better start swimming in the sea... There are quite a few beautiful, sandy beaches here with nobody around at all. Lo So Shing is definitely the best public beach here, with very few visitors even in summertime. It's just a warm-up bike ride away from Yung Shue Wan and it'll feel great to cool off there...

[tjungarayi]

How about a compromise. Perhaps one of our enterprising food merchants can incoporate one of those pools that lie above the restuarant seating. You could even put a few fish in there as well., maybe even a green turtle. Sort of free range fish.
I think its a good idea and someone should look into it. Tourists would love it. Gawking at shimmering pale forms gliding through the aqua as they chow down to a yummy stir fry picking succulent morsels of reef fish from their plates.
Have a swim then eat, or for those weight conscious among us, eat, strip off, then do a few circuits.
This is a Cantonese first, Where else will you find cheap eats with the option of exercise and entertaining - all in the same breath.
Its a money spinner guys.

[Alan]

[Bimberson]

LAmmagung wrote:

[Lamma-Gung]

Even one year ago, it would have sounded crazy.

Thinking about biking to Queen Mary Hospital today, via Aberdeen, meeting my surgeon for a regular follow-up. I've never biked on HK Island before, is it even legal to use the normal roads or do I need to bike on the sidewalk?

I won't forget to thank her again for enabling me to go from 5 different daily medications one year ago to being completely drugs-free (actually, no drugs at all, inc. alcohol, tobacco and illegal ones; not counting coffee.)

But going swimming in the ocean would be another brand-new experience for me, another challenge I'm eager to try. Or should I wait for a local swimming pool? I might be a grand grandad by that time, a Lamma-Gung-Gung.