Coaldale Pools Coledale is one of our favorite pools. Nominally it sits to the south of Coledale beach, but the rock platform it is in is so big and wide that the pool has little relationship to the beach. It sits rather proudly on its own on the rock, in no need of a...
We arrive at Oak Park Beach Pool slightly fatigued. A 4-pool day requires significant energy. On the way we debate if we will even go in. We have already swum at the North and South Cronulla Pools and then at Shelly Park Pool. Maybe we should just take some photos and...
When the tide is high and a pool is awash, timing is everything. You go to the water not really knowing what it will be like until you are there. You could retreat, but in our busy lives the time is now, you will not have the time to come back. When the water is high...
We continue our tour of the Coogee pools today with Wylie’s Baths and the Ivor Rowe Rockpool. We cannot get in at Ivor Rowe even at low tide because of the continued post-tsunami turbulence. Ivor Rowe is a teardrop pool scooped out of a rock platform south of Coogee...
Coogee beach There is no collective noun for pools so let me suggest one – a coogee of pools. This is to reflect the one kilometre in Coogee that has 5 pools, the densest concentration of pools on the NSW coast. The pools are (from north to south) Giles Baths, the...
Bondi Icebergs Pool There’s a tsunami warning this morning which adds a level of excitement to the day. I spend some time at the first pools – Wally Weekes and the Children’s Pool at Bondi – scanning the horizon for a disaster-movie event. In the end, there is no...
