Lake Monger
Wetland lake ringed by a paved path, once a swimming and boating hub now given over to black swans.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lake Monger in Perth turns on the years when the water was the city's busiest swimming and boating ground, and the run of tragedies that shadowed it. You'll hear about the kiosk, bathing sheds and jetty that once lined the southern shore, the swimming carnivals and Boy Scout canoe races held there, and a teenage boy, Reginald Rowles, who set out onto the water one ordinary afternoon in nineteen thirty-nine. Listen along the lake's footpath, where none of that boating life remains today.
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