This listing of usable pools and ghost pools goes clockwise around Australia’s coast beginning with Queensland’s ocean pools. Images of some of these pools are also available in our Flickr Collection about Australia’s Ocean Pools,
Note: All into Ocean Pools Inc does not regard any stinger enclosures or other slatted or netted swimming and bathing enclosures as ocean pools and does not regard any seawater pools in sheltered waters such as Sydney Harbour as ocean pools. See our definition of an ocean pool for further details.
Please contact All into Ocean Pools Inc if you:
- have information on other Australian ocean pools that should be added to this list, or
- can provide more information about one or more of the pools on this list.
East Coast (North to South)
Queensland (North to South)
Sunshine Coast
Dicky Beach, Caloundra (probably now a ghost pool)
Old rock pool, Kings Beach, Caloundra
The Sir Francis Nicklin Testimonial Swimming Pool, Kings Beach, Caloundra
Gold Coast
Burleigh Rock Pool (ghost pool)
Snapper Rocks Sea Baths (ghost of the original Jack Evans Pet Porpoise Pool)
New South Wales (North to South)
NSW North Coast (North to South)
East Ballina Children’s Pool (Shelly Beach Rock Pool)
Forster Ocean Baths (the Bullring)
Newcastle Ladies Baths (ghost of a gender-segregated beach bathing area)
Bar Beach Rock Pool
NSW Central Coast (North to South)
Norah Head (Cabbage Tree Harbour) Pool
Killcare – Putty Beach Rock Pool
Umina Beach (ghost)
Sydney – Northern Beaches (North to South)
Newport – Northern headland rock pools (ghost)
Sydney – Eastern Beaches (North to South)
North Bondi – Wally Weekes Pool
Bondi Icebergs Pool (Bondi Baths)
Geoff James Pool (Clovelly Baths)
Coogee – Giles Baths Rock Pool
Coogee – Ross Jones Memorial Pool (Coogee Beach Pool)
Coogee – McIvers Baths (Coogee Women’s Pool)
Sydney – Cronulla Beaches (North to South)
Royal National Park (North to South)
Illawarra (North to South)
Little Austinmer children’s pool
Thirroul Olympic Pool (beachside seawater pool – not an ocean pool)
Old Thirroul Baths – McCauleys Rocks (ghost)
Collins Point Baths /Woonona Baths (ghost)
Wollongong rock pool (once the Men’s Baths)
Wollongong Toddlers Pool (ghost)
Wollongong Nuns Pools or Chain Baths (ghost)
Wollongong – Ladies Baths (ghost)
Port Kembla – Fishermens Beach Rock Pool (ghost)
Port Kembla Olympic Pool (hilltop seawater pool – not an ocean pool)
Barrack Point Pool (ghost)
Shellharbour – Beverley Whitfield Pool
Gerringong – Boatharbour Baths
Gerringong – Men’s Baths Boatharbour (ghost)
Shoalhaven (North to South)
Huskisson Pool (Pool in a park – not an ocean pool)
NSW Far South Coast (North to South)
Bermagui – Horseshoe Bay (ghost)
Bermagui – Zane Grey Pool (area)
Victoria
Western Australia (south to north)
Great Southern
Greens Pool (near Denmark, WA)
Bunbury
Bunbury Back Beach pool (ghost), Bunbury,
Perth
Mettams Pool, Trigg
Hamersley Pool, North Beach