Category: Swimming Pools
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‘Magic’, ‘medicinal’ water keeping tourists and towns afloat | The Pool
Taking to the waters of a mineral pool is a human tradition stretching back thousands of years ago. Today, it’s often grey nomads seeking out the reputed healing powers of mineral pools and their bubbling waters.
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The way that athletes use pools for rehabilitation | The Pool
Every weekend our football stars run onto the turf across the country and battle. They collide at break-neck speed, tackles are made, marks are taken, there are winners, there are losers. Most of all there are many, many sore bodies and many, many sore egos.
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The ladies chain baths of the Illawarra | The Pool
By 1840’s the Ladies Chain Baths were a significant local tourist attraction in the Illawarra and a common subject on early twentieth-century postcards of Wollongong.
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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.