100 Things To Do You’ve Never Heard Of #022 Bathe in convict history
“THIS WAS MY LOCAL SWIMMING HOLE GROWING UP. FANTASTIC WITH THE WAVES CRASHING OVER THE ROCK WALLS AND AWESOME ON NEW YEARS DAY WITH A BEER.” – Michelle Hespe
Luckily for us, it’s been a public pool since 1863, and was renamed after the Aboriginal Dharug word bugi: to bathe. As you stand and watch the waves smashing into the pool, you can picture what it must have been like to quarry it manually from the rocks, standing deep in troubled water. Especially since the rocks in the area are a sandstone-conglomerate and considered stubbornly hard.
WHERE // Newcastle, 160km north of Sydney. The pool is at the foot of Shepherds Hill, beneath King Edward Park.
DID YOU KNOW? // Newcastle is the seventh largest city in Australia and is the largest city that’s not a state or federal capital. It’s known for its convict tracks all around the area, such as the site of the former Convict Lumber Yards, the oldest surviving example of a convict industrial site.
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Newcastle, The Bogey Hole, NSW
The Bogey Hole is considered Australians oldest convict built public swimming area. This public swimming hole is a Newcastle institution.
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Where // NSW, Australia
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This article appeared in Issue 14 of Australian Traveller.
Special "100" Issue. The 100 things to do in Australia you've never heard of. The unknown attractions of Australia. 1770. Two Peoples Bay Rottnest Island. eview: Kooljaman Cape Leveque
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