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Reviewing the best ocean swimming pools in Australia 🏊🐟💦 #YourSportStory
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3:02Now PlayingImagine swimming your way up and down the east coast, via ocean pools. This is the task that Simon Duffin has set himself, and he's tracking his aquatic journey on a lively blog.
Simon hails from Yorkshire, and has been based in Kiama for 10 months. As a keen swimmer he's loving the waters of NSW, tropical in comparison with the Atlantic and North Sea.
There's only a handful of ocean pools left in the UK, mainly in Scotland and around Cornwall and Devon. So Simon was overjoyed to discover ocean pools on the NSW coast still intact and in use. He figured that with more than 60 pools available he could swim all year round. Simon thinks nothing of driving more than 100km for a swim.
Outdoor swimming is the key for Simon. He feels in touch with nature, and free from the chlorine chemicals of indoor pools. But he's far more comfortable in the confines of an ocean pool than in the surf, with the rips and sharks.
Simon is sharing his love of ocean pool swimming with an online audience, via his Ocean Pools NSW website. He reviews each pool he swims in, and then throws in a recommendation for a local cafe for a post pool cuppa.
For his reviews of each pool, Simon considers the conditions of the pool, how it's affected by tides, where you can get changed, if it has disabled access, which day is cleaning day and so on. Simon is also interested in the history of the pool, and the thoughts of locals. He's keen to get the whole story of the pool.
Occasionally local councils moan about the cost of maintaining ocean pools. But Simon feels it would be a tragedy to lose the pools, and anytime there's chatter about closure, locals rally to save their beloved pools.
In the video above, Simon was filmed visiting his favourite Illawarra pool at Coledale, on a perfect spring day. Simon loves that Coledale sits out on a rock platform almost at ocean level, and is unencumbered by "nanny state" elements such as fencing. It's as close as swimming in an actual rock pool as you can get. You just have to be careful of the oyster shells as you get in.
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