I’ve been visiting another of my favourite swimming places! Coogee Ladies’ Baths in Sydney- a sea-swimming pool, with waves washing over the rock sides… it is absolutely beautiful. I used to come here about 25 years ago and it is still exactly the same, including the entry price I’d say - 20 cents a visit.
I was there for a couple of hours the other day and there must have been at least 40 women through in that time - women in their twenties, sixties and everywhere in-between - women with small children, women having picnics, sun-bathing, doing laps, drifting around in the water chatting - I heard about 4 different languages - it seems like several hundred women a day must go there. It’s just gorgeous - and I enjoyed the relative warmth of the sea (compared with my river swimming) and its surprising bouyancy! There’s a whole sense of a special secret - yet shared with any women who come along…