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Rock pools and ocean pools in Sydney

Sydney has a pool for every mood. Swim laps at Bondi Icebergs with the surf breaking over the wall, float in the sandstone rock pools from Manly to Palm Beach, or paddle in calm netted baths around the harbour. Most are free, and plenty are a bus or ferry ride from the city.

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Places marked “details coming” are pools we know exist but have not finished researching.

Most-searched pools in Sydney

Dawn Fraser Baths, Balmain, Mahon Pool, Maroubra, Parsley Bay, Vaucluse, Fairy Bower Rock Pool, Manly, Shelly Park Ocean Pool, Cronulla, Oak Park Ocean Pool, Cronulla.

About the pools in Sydney

58 places are listed for Sydney: 25 harbour pools, 19 rock pools, 12 ocean pools, 2 natural pools. The longest with a published length is Bilgola Rock Pool at 50 m. 14 have a kids area or shallow section. Councils set cleaning and closure times, so check before you go.

Avalon Rock Pool, Balmoral Baths, Bayview Baths, Bayview Park Baths, Bilgola Rock Pool, Bondi Icebergs Pool, Bronte Baths, Bronte Bogey Hole, Brooklyn Baths, Chiswick Baths, Clontarf Baths, Collaroy Rock Pool, Como Pleasure Grounds, Cronulla Beach Rock Pool, Dawn Fraser Baths, Dee Why Rock Pool, Fairlight Rock Pool, Fairy Bower Rock Pool, Forty Baskets Beach, Freshwater Rock Pool, Giles Baths, Greenwich Baths, Gunnamatta Bay Baths, Gymea Bay Baths, Ivo Rowe Rock Pool, Kyeemagh Baths, Lilli Pilli Baths, MacCallum Pool, Mahon Pool, Malabar Ocean Pool, McIver's Ladies Baths, Mona Vale Rock Pool, Monterey Baths, Murray Rose Pool, Newport Rock Pool, North Bondi Children's Pool, North Curl Curl Rock Pool, North Narrabeen Rock Pool, Northbridge Baths, Oak Park Ocean Pool, Oatley Park Baths, Palm Beach Rock Pool, Parsley Bay, Pickering Point Baths, Queenscliff Rock Pool, Ross Jones Memorial Pool, Shelly Park Ocean Pool, Silver Beach Baths, South Curl Curl Rock Pool, South Maroubra Rock Pools, The Geoff James Pool, Vanston Baths, Walley Weekes Pool, Watsons Bay Baths, Wattamolla Lagoon, Whale Beach Rock Pool, Woolwich Baths, Wylie's Baths.