Isa Wye was involved with the Dee Why Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Club for 85 years. She became its honorary secretary when she was 16 and  served as the club president for 50 years. Her book “80 years on”: The Dee Why Ladies Amateur Swimming Club, 1922-2002. was published in 2002 by the Dee Why Ladies Amateur Swimming Club. She was still a member of the Club’s executive committee when she died in 2013 at the age of 90.

Her family helped to establish the Dee Why RSL Club and some of the Northern Beaches most successful sporting and community organisations. She was one of the people who lobbied for the building of the Warringah Aquatic Centre in the late 1970s.

Isa Wye received an MBE in 1973, attended the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow as an Australian team official and received an OAM in 2002 in honour of her outstanding service to the community

Sydney’s Northern Beaches Council decided on 7 March 2019 that the ocean pool at Dee Why will now be known as the Isa Wye Rockpool.

Photographs of tidal pools (http://thetidalpools.com/) in Australia, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, England and Scotland by the late Pim Vuik make it clear that some of these pools deserve recognition as ocean pools.

Sculptor, who created the statue of  Mina Wylie that stands at Wylie’s Baths.

Lecturer at the University of NSW’s College of Fine Arts for over 20 years.

Author of A Century of Wylie’s Baths, Coogee: A cultural history  published by Wylies Baths Trust in 2001

Member of the Wylies Baths Trust and  a Life Member of Wylies Baths since 2015.

See also this Daily Telegraph 2014 article about Eileen Slarke

Artist. Paints images of ocean pools on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Manly’s Fairy Bower rock pool featured in several paintings (Swim Bill Swim; Swim Harry Swim; Shadows and Reflections; Cocktails by Candle Light; Night Watch; Creatures Dance)  from her Fairy Bower Revisited Series & Vertical Glimpses series of paintings and limited edition prints.

Her Ocean Baths series of paintings and limited edition prints includes images relating to the following ocean pools:

• Avalon Rock Pool, NSW (Big Swell – Avalon Pool),
• Bilgola Rock Pool, NSW (Iron Man- Bilgola Pool),
• Collaroy Rock Pool, NSW (Stormy Angler- Collaroy Pool),
• Fairy Bower Rock Pool, NSW (Man Bathing Fairy Bower Rock Pool; Walk, Coffee, Talk- Fairy Bower; Bathers near Shelly Beach),
• Mona Vale Rock Pool (Floating Pool- Mona Vale Ocean Baths),
• Newport Rock Pool, NSW (Tug and Pull- Newport Ocean Baths), and
• Palm Beach Rock Pool, NSW (Paradise Pond – Palm Beach Pool).

See also her website Judith Graham