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)

Yamba Rock Pool

Sawtell Memorial Rock Pool

Black Head Rock Pool

Forster Ocean Baths (the Bullring)

Soldiers Baths

Square Hole (ghost)

Newcastle Ocean Baths

Canoe Pool

Newcastle Ladies Baths (ghost of a gender-segregated beach bathing area)

Bogey Hole

Bar Beach Rock Pool

Old Merewether Baths

Merewether Ocean Baths

NSW Central Coast (North to South)

Norah Head (Cabbage Tree Harbour) Pool

The Entrance Ocean Baths

Terrigal Rock Pool

Avoca Beach Rock Pool

Copacabana Rock Pool

MacMasters Beach Rock Pool

Killcare – Putty Beach Rock Pool

Umina Beach (ghost)

Pearl Beach Rock Pool

Sydney – Northern Beaches (North to South)

Palm Beach Rock Pool

Whale Beach Rock Pool

Avalon Rock Pool

Bilgola Rock Pool

Newport – Northern headland rock pools (ghost)

Newport Rock Pool

Mona Vale Rock Pool

North Narrabeen Rock Pool

Collaroy Rock Pool

Dee Why Rock Pool

North Curl Curl Rock Pool

Curl Curl Rock Pool

Freshwater Rock Pool

Queenscliff Rock Pool

Fairy Bower Pool

Sydney – Eastern Beaches (North to South)

North Bondi – Wally Weekes Pool

North Bondi – Children’s Pool

Bondi Icebergs Pool (Bondi Baths)

Bronte Bogey Hole

Bronte 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)

Coogee – Wylies Baths

South Coogee – Ivo Rowe Pool

Maroubra – Mahon Pool

South Maroubra Rock Pools

Malabar Pool

Little Bay Pool

Sydney – Cronulla Beaches (North to South)

Cronulla – northernmost pool

Cronulla – Children’s Pool

Cronulla – main ocean pool

Cronulla – Shelly Beach Pool

Cronulla – Oak Park Pool

Royal National Park (North to South)

Big Marley Rock Pool

Figure Eight Pool

Bulgo pool

Illawarra (North to South)

Coalcliff Pool

Clifton Baths (ghost)

Doctors Pool (ghost)

Scarborough Baths (ghost)

Wombarra Baths

Coledale Baths

Little Austinmer children’s pool

Austinmer Baths

Thirroul Olympic Pool (beachside seawater pool – not an ocean pool)

Old Thirroul Baths – McCauleys Rocks (ghost)

Bulli Baths

Collins Point Baths /Woonona Baths (ghost)

Woonona Baths

Bellambi Pool

Towradgi Pool

Wollongong rock pool (once the Men’s Baths)

Wollongong Toddlers Pool (ghost)

Wollongong Continental Baths

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

Kiama – Pheasant Point Pool

Kiama – Blowhole Point Pool

Campbell’s Hole

Werri Beach Pool

Gerringong – Boatharbour Baths

Gerringong – Men’s Baths Boatharbour (ghost)

Shoalhaven (North to South)

Huskisson Pool (Pool in a park – not an ocean pool)

Currarong Pools

Mollymook Bogey Hole

Ulladulla Sea Pool

NSW Far South Coast (North to South)

Bermagui – Horseshoe Bay (ghost)

Bermagui – Blue Pool

Bermagui – Zane Grey Pool (area)

Aslings Beach Rock Pool, Eden

Victoria

Cape Paterson Bay Beach Pool

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

Kimberley

Anastasia’s Pool (ghost), Gantheaume Point, Broome