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Sydney's Ocean Pools
The Icebergs Swimming Club pool overlooks Bondi Beach.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Bondi's Icerbergs pool has a large clubhouse with restaurants, a splash pool, Olympic pool and sun decks. The water, fed by Southern Ocean currents, is actually chilly.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
The Icebergs Swimming Club houses a restaurant and bar with views over the pool and Bondi Beach.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Sydney's ocean pools fill with seawater. Sharks have been known to wash into the pools during high seas.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
The Icebergs Swimming Club houses a restaurant and bar with views over the pool and Bondi Beach.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
The Icebergs Swimming Club houses a restaurant and bar with views over the pool and Bondi Beach.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
The Icebergs Swimming Club pool at Bondi Beach is for serious swimmers who can endure the surprisingly frigid water that rolls in from Antarctica.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
North Sydney Olympic Pool, one of Australia's most stunning pools, re-opens after extensive renovations in June, 2024.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Bronte Baths offers safer swimming than the riptide-torn beach at the suburb of Bronte, just down the coast from Bondi.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Dawn Fraser Baths, Sydney's oldest, is still a local favourite for its secluded location on the inner harbour.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Perhaps one of the world's most chic of public pools, Andrew Boy Charlton Pool hangs over Sydney Harbour at the edge of the Botanical Gardens.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
After swimming, grab a table of Oh Boy Cafe and watch swimmers churn the lanes below in the Andrew Boy Charlton Pool.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Sydney's first men-only "bogey hole", Giles Baths now welcomes everyone to its shallow waters filled with sea life.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Sydney's first men-only "bogey hole", Giles Baths now welcomes everyone to its shallow waters filled with sea life.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Wylie's Baths, dating from the Victorian era, is built below high tide level, so the pool is filled with fresh seawater twice a day.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
Wylie's Baths near Coogee Beach was the first to allow mixed gender swimming in 1911. A women-only pool, McIver's Baths, is in the background.
Photo: Glen Petrie
Photo: Glen Petrie
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