Fiona Willis went for a swim at Redleaf pool in Sydney’s east on Monday morning after the swell at Bondi Beach caused by Tonga’s Hunga Hunga Ha’apai volcano shut down the Icebergs pool, and her two sons’ lessons.
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A hazardous surf warning was issued by the Bureau of Meteorology on Monday urging the east coast of the state to consider staying out of the water in light of the severe swells caused by the eruption.
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“My six-year-old is really struggling to learn to swim with all the disruption over the past two years. We thought it’d be OK going to an outdoor pool but so many swimming teachers have come down with COVID-19 after the Omicron strain,” she said.
Until recently, Mrs Willis worked as a communication’s manager in the finance industry but found juggling the demands of home schooling, looking after her younger son, and a busy fulltime job too overwhelming.
“ It was just too much. My youngest child’s preschool closed, I was working all evening and I just couldn’t keep it all up,” she said.
The Willis’s are in limbo as they await a move to West Australia when the state border reopens in February.
“We can’t even look at accommodation yet as we’re not sure whether we’ll have to go into hotel quarantine or if they’ll change plans at the last minute, it’s incredibly stressful.”
For Mrs Willis, the worst part is not knowing where or when they’ll be able to enroll their son in school.
“The delayed border reopening is preventing us from any kind of stability and last year was already hard enough,” she said.
Despite all the complications and pressure over the past two years, Mrs Willis takes solace in all the quality time she’s spent with her children over the past year.
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