Travelling to Adelaide through south-west NSW and the Mallee country in Victoria and South Australia over the past couple of days we stopped by nine country pools – Lockhart, Urana and Jerilderie in south-west NSW, Swan Hill’s Richards Swimming Leisure Centre, Sea Lake Pool, Underbool Pool and Murrayville Pool in Victoria and Pinnaroo and Lameroo swimming centres in South Australia.
Built between 1955 and the mid-1980s, they were typified by vast expanses of lawn, simple amenities buildings, quirky signs, 33-metre and wading pools, surviving springboards, slides, retro-style seating and plaques commemorating the official opening of the pools. Â If they’d been open I would have loved to have swum at each one but especially I would have enjoyed bouncing off the diving board into the L-shaped Lameroo Pool.
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Haven’t you got the most tolerant husband? What was supposed to be a 4 hour drive ended up taking 8 hours! 😊😘
Yes! And thanks for spotting a number of the pool signs otherwise we might have only visited about six!
Love the duck doings it’s laps. Happy travels.
Yes! The only creature swimming in any of the pools as all closed for winter! Spotting more interesting pools in little towns on our walking trip in the Flinders Ranges! Great to see that many small towns still provide somewhere for the locals to swim in the hots months!
Thanks for sharing your adventures! Great photos.
Thanks Bob. Lots of great pools in country Australia and many are War Memorial pools.