{"id":18843,"date":"2017-12-20T05:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=18843"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:14:14","slug":"the-two-laps-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/?page_id=18843","title":{"rendered":"The Two Laps Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day, two blokes swim together in a cool looking ocean pool.\u00a0 On one day of each year, 12 June to be precise, they race.\u00a0 Two Laps<\/a>\u00a0is a story of plotting, cheating and general skulduggery – at which the older bloke clearly excels – and where mateship takes a backseat to the need to win.<\/p>\n

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It’s funny how a new obsession can take root in a mind vulnerable to such things.\u00a0 After the apparently innocent act of watching just five minutes of this home-grown, black-and-white film, a brand new quirk developed and quickly took hold.<\/p>\n

This nondescript afternoon’s viewing spawned a perfectly defensible reason for travelling to all manner of watery locations and swimming two laps in some of the most amazing pools in the country.<\/p>\n

To provide a veneer of respectability to this newly-found piece of whimsy, some research and planning has been invested in the process of launching our Two Laps Project.\u00a0 Others have adopted stringent criterion while documenting swimming areas, with clear demarcations between ocean pools<\/a>, swimming enclosures, tidal pools<\/a>, rock pools<\/a> and swimming holes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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While being uptight and rule-bound could defeat the aim of having a good time, we were mindful that the project could run amok and become a rules-free excuse to squander time in the water.\u00a0 After serious debate about which swimming areas to include in our Two Laps Project, one thing became evident and made the final inclusion criterion blissfully clear.<\/p>\n

Australia is over-blessed with water-dwelling creatures that do not happily co-exist with humanity, as well as a large mass of humanity that likes to take to the water.\u00a0 Over time, this dilemma has been addressed with a variety of creative solutions that allow people to indulge their need for water immersion and be reasonably assured of returning to dry land unscathed.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we plan to swim Two Laps in any swimming area that meets the following criterion:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0The swimming area has been constructed in some way to provide a\u00a0 place for people to swim where they feel safe from water-borne beasties; and<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2.\u00a0 The place looks pretty cool and has some interesting history.<\/p>\n

    Enjoy photos and stories of Our Two Laps project\u00a0 (24 December 2017)<\/p>\n

    Wynnum Wading Pool<\/a> – Wynnum Esplanade, Queensland<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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    Pemberton Pool<\/a> – Pemberton, West Australia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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    Eastern Beach Swimming Enclosure<\/a> – Geelong, Victoria<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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    Sydney Adventure – March 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In March 2018, we had a spectacular three day adventure in Sydney visiting the home of Rock Pools, most built into the rock shelf along the beautiful beaches north of Sydney.\u00a0 Thanks to our very generous and tolerant friends, Ian and Katherine, we visited 21 pools and swimming enclosures, and share our new-found two laps obsession with some Sydney locals.<\/p>\n

    Palm Beach<\/p>\n

    Whale Beach<\/p>\n

    Avalon Rockpool<\/p>\n

    Bilgola Rockpool<\/p>\n

    Newport Beach<\/p>\n

    Mona Vale Beach<\/p>\n

    North Narabeen<\/p>\n

    Collaroy<\/p>\n

    Dee Why<\/p>\n

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    North Curl Curl<\/p>\n

    Curl Curl<\/p>\n

    Freshwater<\/p>\n

    Queenscliff<\/p>\n

    Fairy Bower<\/p>\n

    Little Manly Beach<\/p>\n

    Manly Beach<\/p>\n

    Fairlight<\/p>\n

    Forty Baskets<\/p>\n

    Clontarf Reserve<\/p>\n

    Balmoral<\/p>\n

    Clifton Garden<\/p>\n

    McCallum Pool, Cremorne Point<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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    Every day, two blokes swim together in a cool looking ocean pool.\u00a0 On one day of each year, 12 June to be precise, they race.\u00a0 Two Laps\u00a0is a story of plotting, cheating and general skulduggery – at which the older bloke clearly excels – and where mateship takes a backseat to the need to win. … Continue reading The Two Laps Project<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18847,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18843"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19094,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18843\/revisions\/19094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longrides.bike\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}