Category: Swimming Pools
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How Billabong is Australia’s Original and Oldest Pool  | The Pool
The billabong is the keeper of Australian’s ancestral stories. Its freshwater has helped sustain indigenous culture to this day. Billabongs are made where the rivers part. They fill seasonally, breathing life into Australia’s arid landscape. Rivers have found wound their way across the country for countless millions of years and when the river changes course it leaves behind a billabong. It’s still connected…
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Travel blogger Simon Duffin’s top four Australian ocean pools | The Pool
If you’re looking for your next Australian summer holiday destination, you might consider somewhere cool, blue and emotionally buoyant. Blogger Simon Duffin lists his top four Australian ocean pools.
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Olympic family on how pool passion keeps them together | The Pool
You don’t get much more royal when it comes to swimming than Wollongong locals the McKeons. While Emma has won multiple Olympic medals, brother David, father Ron and mum Susie all have Olympic connections.
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Happiness is hydrotherapy: the pool where community love runs deep | The Pool
Innisfail’s Mary and Duncan Patterson visit their local pool twice a week. The water aerobics workouts help keep their bodies fit, but the benefits to their mental well-being run much deeper. Duncan has dementia and wife Mary is his full-time carer. For Mary, the pool is a place of respite. For Duncan, it’s a source…
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Olympians Leisel Jones and Ellie Cole on their connection to pools | The Pool
Olympic Size: Swimming is our international sporting badge of honour. Australia has won more Olympic Medals in swimming than any other pursuit. Internationally, Australia trails only the might of the United States for medals won.
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How to Clean Your Swimming Pool
When you have your own swimming pool you need to clean it. Many people who are looking for a Spanish property ask me about the maintenance of a pool. Can you do it yourself? How long does it take? Is it difficult? I will show you how I clean our pool.
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Greensboro Aquatic Center Becomes Largest Indoor Swim Facility in Nation With Addition of 4th Pool
A new place to splash around and get some laps in has officially opened in Greensboro. A grand opening for the fourth and newest pool at the Greensboro Aquatic Center was held Tuesday. The new 27,000 square-foot addition provides 19 extra swimming lanes, making Greensboro Aquatic Center the largest indoor swimming facility in the country.…
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Celebrating the legacy of two lifetimes | The Pool
For more than 30 years, John & Nina Manning were the faces of the Bathurst pool. They ran the pool and the canteen, keeping an eye on swimmers doing their laps and kids who may or may not have been getting up to mischief on hot summer days. In memory of their dedication, the Bathurst…