#50YearsAgo How Chain Rocks got its name
The chains did not stop the residents from being called upon to rescue holidaymakers though.
THERE was a need for a safe bathing area in Toti and Chain Rocks provided a suitable gully with rocks sheltering either side. The plan was to have an anchor post on either side of the gully with a heavy chain spanning the gap, then smaller chains hanging from the large chain.
These would be anchored in the gully a set distance from the water’s edge. Two holes were drilled into the rocks. Two posts, hacksawed from the railway line, were
concreted into the holes. Anchoring down the chains was quite tricky.
Corrugated water tanks were cut in half, floated out to the desired position and filled with concrete and the chains set in these.
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The chains prevented bathers from being washed out to sea as they could hold onto them.
The two Reinbach brothers and a Mr Grainger were often called upon to rescue bathers. No-one knows the exact date when the chains were fixed into the rocks.
The Reinbachs were involved in the project as well as several other locals. The chains, however, were there when Noel Wright arrived in Amanzimtoti in 1926.
There are house foundations that can still be seen on the rocks at Chain Rocks. The foundations and the three front steps were there in the 1970s and the SUN is
unable to establish who built the house, when, or what happened to it.
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