Angourie Pools

I paused yesterday at Angourie, a surfing town near Yamba. In addition to fine beaches and surfing, Angourie has two splendid swimming holes, named the Blue and Green Pools. These are abandoned rock quarries that have filled with fresh spring water. Yesterday was perfect swimming; the water and air temp was around 80 F. A splendid break from the road! I visited this spot in 2001, but it was a chilly, rainy day so I didn't go for a swim. This time I took long dips in both pools. This is the blue one.

This is the green pool. The pools are aptly named, as you can see. They both have diving rocks, but The Old Sloat's high diving days are long gone. A 38 year old bloke did execute a couple successful jumps from 7 or 8 metres up into this pool, though; he had to jump out over two metres from the rocks to carry into the water but made it easily...fortunately!

Look who's ready to take the plunge! Well, actually the Lizard is terrestrial...he doesn't swim. He sinks...rapidly. So he just enjoyed the view from a handy warm rock.