A grey day doesn’t generally dampen my experience of an ocean pool. Every pool is worthy due to the combination of being outside and part of the ocean. It doesn’t matter if it rains or not – in fact as the rain keeps the crowds away it can sometimes be desirable. The...
Terrigal Pool We are completely at the mercy of the tides and the weather on this trip. Our schedule of 59 pools in 26 days is punishing and there’s no room for turning back to swim in a pool that we could not enter at the appointed time. So Yamba Beach Pool – where I...
The cross in the wall at The Bogey Hole We must get up early to get to The Bogey Hole – probably one of the best, and the oldest ocean pool on the NSW coast. It’s a natural pool that’s been cut into rock, so we cannot go at a time of our own choosing and instead have...
The best thing about the Newcastle Ocean Baths is the art deco entrance. It speaks to a real grandeur of vision. At some point in the last century or even prior, someone looked at this bit of land and thought – we could have a really great pool here. And then in...
We are running on a very tight schedule. To do 59 pools in 26 days means we don’t have a lot of wiggle room so despite not getting in at Yamba yesterday, we have to keep going forward to get ahead of the cyclone off the coast. That meant saying goodbye to Grafton (an...
