Wattamolla cliff jump, near Sydney, Australia

Wattamolla is a cove, lagoon and beach on the New South Wales coast south of Sydney. It's in the Royal National Park. If you're brave you can jump off the cliff!!!

[@KevinHallSurfing]

Now the waterfall is fenced off to the public and signs advise no jumping or diving. A Nepalese student, who couldn't swim apparently, jumped off and drowned so, as usual, one complete idiot ruined it for the rest.

[@deankosta6216]

Meh its easy to hop over

[@bread5358]

@@deankosta6216 or just climb the rocks from the small jump to get up

[@mateusseer5353]

Not the fault of the person who died; people will always miscalculate situations and be injured or die as a result. The problem is the 'nanny state' mentality; the attitude that people have to be protected from themselves; it's nonsense. That patronising attitude is what ruins it for everyone.

[@KevinHallSurfing]

@@mateusseer5353 Late 60's I somersaulted into a pond near a beach and was impaled nearly right through my back. Nearly bled to death. Cut the artery(?) that feeds both the femoral arteries, grazed spine, nicked kidney and cut the lumbar muscle completely in half. 😐☹ Took 47 stitches internal and out to join everything. Pure luck that one of the crowd was a lifeguard and simply applied pressure until ambo and a DR arrived 20 mins later. It happens and the diving off point was used 100's of times and deemed safe.Something must have shifted from the bank? 🤔 "A few weeks later" no fences, no signs, no threats of being fined had been put up.Never complained or tried to sue the local council etc. Just wore it as a mistake, my fault. Now it's backfilled and a parking area.😆 Back in the day just common sense or good luck. Our (then) drummed in warning ... "Look before you leap" 😍😂☹

[@KevinHallSurfing]

@@deankosta6216 Fencing in this sort of situation isn't for safety but more for voiding any public liability. ☹