Above: The leisure pools
Above: Outside
Above: The leisure pools
Above: Competition diving and water polo pool
Above: Competition pool (I did my laps here)
Above: The competition pools - diving/water polo and main pool
Above: The competition pool, with inflatable because it's school holidays
Above: leisure pools and th second lap pool (warm down pool during competitions)
Above: Cafe on second level
Above: Ben (on right) and his friends
Above: leisure pool and river run
Visited here today for Ben's birthday. A terrific facility thanks to the Olympics. Two 50m pool, one 8 lane, one 10 lane, diving pool, and freeform play pools with rapid ruver run, water slide etc.
The facility also has gym and fitness centre, sauna, steam room, spa pools. There's swimming classes, training squads, all day lap swimming, cafes. You can book childminding, hosted kids' birthday parties, massage and a triathlon club.
I don't think many people from outside Australia realise how deeply public swimming facilities penetrate the Australian psyche. To use this facility it cost us $28.80 for 3 adults and 4 kids for all day. I've paid more than that for a single session at a European pool. We get a bit purse-lipped if pool entry gets anything beyond about $5-$6 in an indoor heated centre, $3-4 outdoors. Generally swimming pools are one of the community facilities, along with libraries, parks etc which local government maintains (they are NOT however responsible for education - that's a state government level responsibility).
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