The Pools

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Simon Peterswald, Australia
• Date of Photograph
  April 2026

In April this year my wife and I took a 25 day road trip of 2,000 kilometres. It was to document the iconic ocean pools on the eastern coast of Australia and where possible swim in them. Most are man made and a few are natural rock pools. One, the Newcastle Bogey Hole, dates back 200 years. In the end I documented 98 and swam in 68 - swimming a total of over 10kilometres. A full set of cropped images can be seen on Instagram - The100PoolsGuy. To my knowledge no-one has attempted to swim them all in a single trip.