Ash Ryan

What I Learned After Building Hundreds of Pools on the Gold Coast

There’s a moment I’ll never forget. More than 30 years ago, I was standing on a dusty block on the Gold Coast with a shovel in my hand with my mate in the excavator, looking at the patch of ground where one of my first concrete pools would be built. I had helped in putting in a dozen or so pools when I was an apprentice pool builder in my late teens, but this pool was the first pool I was building and would be considered my first pool.