Sydney pools can offer an enjoyable alternative to beach trips for families and their guests, with large open areas designed for lounging and socialising, designated swimming zones for kids and fully trained life guards on duty.
Swimming pools provide many fun activities, from water slides and the relaxing lazy river to therapeutic and fitness training programs. A pool can also serve as an attractive focal point in landscape design by adding both functionality and visual appeal.
Sydney’s rugged headlands, created as an outgrowth of early sandstone mining activities, have resulted in iconic tidal pools like Bondi Icebergs and Coogee’s McIver’s Ladies Baths by its early mining history, have provided recreational and competitive swimmers a safe haven from rough surf or shark attacks for over one century. These iconic pools serve both recreational and competitive swimmers by providing safe havens.
Ocean swimming has long been a beloved pastime of Australians and visitors alike. While ocean pools may offer more effective exercise sessions while still taking advantage of the sea’s cooling waters, ocean swimming remains a beloved pursuit.
The southern two-thirds of NSW coast feature sandy beaches backed by rocky headlands and built ocean pools that have become popular swimming spots among people of all ages, offering safe and pleasant environments for recreational and competitive swimmers alike. Their pleasant water temperatures – provided by East Australian Current currents – makes these swimming spots even more inviting.
Bronte’s iconic sandstone pool is world renowned. Constructed into the cliffs below the beach by Olympic champ Henry Wylie in 1907 and still breathtaking today.
Other iconic pools include Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre’s pastel pink dive tower, which stands as an outdoor modern pool incorporating vintage Olympic aesthetic. Boasting seven lanes and a pool hoist for convenience and leisurely lap swimming sessions alike. A hub of activity in North Sydney for splashing around or doing laps.
With its emphasis on community involvement, this project has been created with great consideration given to both being both an attractive landmark and providing effective community swimming pools for visitors. Other cities can follow in its footsteps to develop unique and memorable pools of their own.