Plans to redevelop the Civic pool site and replace it with another in Commonwealth Park offer Canberra the opportunity to ride the popularity of wave pools springing up around the country, a surfing scientist says.
Surfing researcher Dr Ana Manero, from the Australian National University, is a regular at the popular Melbourne Urbnsurf facility and said establishing a similar facility in Canberra was an exciting idea which would inject vigour and all-ages recreation into the heart of the city.
