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Waikiki Beach Pool, Hawaii, USA

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Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach Pool – Notes

As the Google Earth image shows, Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach Pool is a large protected swimming area off Oahu’s Kuhio Beach Park. Its two nearly enclosed pools are the happy outcome of efforts to control beach erosion in the 1950s by creating the Kapahulu Groyne and the low rock walls that run perpendicular to the groyne and parallel to the beach.

Unlike the nearby and long-closed Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, this is not a formal pool designed to cater for competitive swimming.

Other names for this pool

  • Waikiki Beach Ocean Swimming Pool

 

 

 

 

 

 

1000 Steps pools, Laguna Beach, California

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The ocean pools at Laguna Beach’s 1000 Steps Beach appear to have been built for private use in the 1920s.  There now appears to be some confusion about whether these pools are now on private land or public land. Once ‘secret places’ known only to local residents, the pools have been popularised by blogs and You Tube videos, such as:

USA’s ocean pools

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Pools that do fit our definition of an ocean pool are rare in the United States of America, but Hawaii and California do host some ocean pools.

We hope you enjoy our profiles of:

 

Know of other USA ocean pools?

If you know of other ocean pools in the United States that should be added to our list, please contact All into Ocean Pools Inc.

All into Ocean Pools Inc would appreciate advice about whether this sea pool should be categorised as an ocean pool:

  • Children’s pool,  La Jolla, California

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