Archive for the Pool Reviews Category

Wombarra Rock Pool is a weird shape. It can’t decide if it’s a rectangle or a triangle. The northern end has three edges – like a giant pair of scissors has chopped off the right corner of a rectangle. The southern end has two uneven sides likes

Kramer Photography. The Austi noticeboard is awesome. Some swimming angel writes in chalk the date, water temperature and a quote or a riddle for the day. It’s these personal touches that makes life magic. Locals leave their belongings undercover on benches next to the noticeboard and dingy

Towradgi heals. The day after I tore the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in my left knee I asked my husband, Kobi, to take me to Towradgi Rock Pool. I limped down the ramp and collapsed into the pool’s embrace. I swam a languid freestyle, my left leg

I stare at cracks. Swimming up and down Woonona Rock Pool in a straight line, without colliding with other freestylers is possible. Even though the pool has no lane markings or lane ropes, if you have clear goggles and 20/20 vision there are definite lines or cracks

What’s with the flat rocks sitting on the bench at Coledale Rock Pool? I push one aside, and sit down. The surface of the pool ripples and sprays in strong onshore winds. I squint in the sun, watch two fishermen chasing after something in the wind’s playful

There’s an otter in the pool. Rather than swimming up and down the length of the pool, the old man with the words “Otter” printed across his bobbing butt cheeks, is freestyling perpendicular, left to right. Otter don’t give a fuck. I watch a while with my buddy