The following letter appeared in today's Canberra Times:
Bust may follow
boom
Comment accompanying the delightful picture of a black swan
and its cygnets indicates that the breaking of the drought was probably the
reason for this season's breeding boom among Lake Burley Griffin's birds (CT,
December 21, p1).
However, the forthcoming boom of power boats
on the lake may well seal the doom of any future breeding
boom.
John K. Layton
Holt
Say, that second paragraph sounds kinda poetic, don't it?
At the expense of stirring the proverbial marsupial with the prehensile
tail a bit further, I note jet-ski aficionados recently held a trial on Lake
Burley G in preparation for a future race meet there. Apparently, the jet
jockeys were most impressed with the venue.
As I suspected, the water skiing trials may have been the thin end of the
wedge.
And another thing to keep an eye out for, every so often someone raises the
possibility of Lake B.G. being a potentially good spot to operate amphibious
aircraft ....
John Layton.
