Mermaids Pool

[Howard Neill]

I came across a whole lot of family slides on a CD. This one, of Mermaids Pool, might be of interest. I think that it was taken about 1955 to 1960?

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Bilharzia, anyone? :smiley2:

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[zimboykie]

Myself & some mates went out there 1997 after about an 11 year absence in the hope that it would still be the same i.e. full up with people, music on the tannoy, the bar/restaurant in full swing, the smell of nyama on the braai, etc, but alas we were the only ones there with everything boarded up & shut but there was still some bugger there to take your money at the gate!!!! Foreskinately we had bought everything with us & still had a great day out! The foofie slide was still up & working which was a bonus too. Has anybody been there recently & seen if there's anything still there? (including the bugger who takes your money at the gate - lol!)
Bulawayo has Diana's Pool; not ever having been there how did that compare in comparison & is that still going?

[SpaRHawK]

I, and most of my friends, nearly killed ourselves at one point or another at that place... was one of the best places in the world... and I miss it.

Last time I was there ( erm... last 98, might be 99) there was nothing much there... the foofie slide was still there... tatty and dangerous as hell.. loved the that the pull back rope would wind around the wire itself, shorten the distance you would go down and then stop you HARD half way down. You would continue forward in a 'Dear Auntie Mavis' stylee...

And the way the inner tube you were riding on would stop when you hit the water but you would contine forwards... usually exiting the water sans swimming rods...

Not going to mention Humphries. My backside still has nightmares about that item...

[john syddall]

we had some great days there-find it hard to believe they got away with charging admission! the first few times we went there was hardly a road. I was only about 9 & wasn`t allowed to use a tube by my Dad (yet he let me swim out to the shark nets in Durban a year or so later)

[Patson]

that place was quite cool except for the bump on the right eish and once headin for it u could only brace yourself for the butting of a life time....

[jiggs]

We used to squash car tyres into those big Bon Marche shopping bags so they were curved and could usually get right across the pool - unless you hit the lip at the bottom.

[joemac]

I went there once in about '99. We had an awesome time there. I don't remember paying admission.