Applebys' travels

Sunday, March 07, 2021

Ocean Pools of NSW, Mar 6, 2021

Heading out of Sydney we descended to Stanwell Park and Coalcliff then moved on towards Wollongong.

Coalcliff

Close to high tide

Wombarra

Coledale

Austinmer

Ocean Pools of NSW, Mar 5, 2021

Not exactly an Ocean pool, but beautiful nevertheless. On the ferry from Watson’s Bay to Circular Quay.

Thursday, March 04, 2021

Ocean Pools of NSW Mar 3 2021

Day 9 and the final 5 pools on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Sunny weather again!

North Curl Curl

South Curl Curl

Where Di spent her childhood holidays. Surf coming over the end wall adds to the fun.

Harbord Beach

Queenscliff

Fairy Bower

Sculpture

Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Day 8 and Melbourne weather: 32 yesterday, 22 today. Actually, Melbourne would have been 16. It’s high tide and the surf is washing over most of the pools. Not sure if that’s scary or exciting but we lean towards the latter. (Once a kid always a kid!).

Newport Beach

Mona Vale Beach

North Narrabeen

Collaroy Beach

Dee Why Beach

Second pool

Ocean Pools of NSW Mar 1 2021

Day 7, one more pool on the Central Coast, Pearl Beach, then Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Palm Beach is only 5 km from Pearl Beach but it took over an hour and a half to drive there via the Pacific Highway. All the pools today were crystal clear and again at a perfect temperature.

Pearl Beach

Rocks, Pearl Beach

Palm Beach

Whale Beach

Avalon Rock Pool

Bilgola Pool

Note the wire mesh protecting the pool from falling rocks of which there are many, some quite large!

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Ocean Pools of NSW Feb 28 2021

Day 6 and we’re on the Central Coast. The sun has appeared and it’s a beautiful day. Two of the pools were skipped because parking was impossible. Avoca had a Sunday market as well as the normal Sunday beach traffic. Terrigal was just as bad. So we visited Copacabana beach where the pool was covered by high tide. We could just see the outline of the walls of the pool. At the other end of this long beach is McMasters Beach which has a small an mostly shallow pool with waves crashing over the end wall.

Then it was on to Killcare Beach which has a natural rock pool with a fairly rocky floor. The surf next to the pool was excellent. Then after a futile effort to get parking it was back to The Entrance where we found a collection of pools.

Back at our Forresters Beach motel we swam in the rock pool there - admittedly an artificial one and not an ocean pool, but a very pleasant setting.

Copacabana pool

McMasters Beach

Killcare Beach

The Entrance

Forresters Beach

motel pool only

Saturday, February 27, 2021

Ocean Pools of NSW Feb 27 2021

7 Newcastle pools all within a short distance of each other. Soldiers baths were underwater, Newcastle Ocean bathes were found behind the Art Deco facade of the original building. Next to it is the Canoe Pool, a shallow pool originally called the Mariners Pool as it had a map of the world on its floor, but presumably renamed because children used to bring homemade canoes and paddle around the world.

The Bogey hole was being washed over by waves. Not a particularly safe place as can be seen by the warning sign.

Finally Merewether Baths has the remnants of a segregated pool for women only - the Ladies Baths and the current baths are actually two pools next to each other: the oldest on the outside and the new pool on the inside, built to fill in a space that often had water in it anyway. These baths were the clearest we’ve seen so far.

Then one pool on the Central Coast, a shallow pool at Norah Head with a sandy beach.

Soldiers Baths Newcastle