Rock Pool - Dee Why Traditional Cache
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The rock pool in Dee Why is probably one of the most popular ones during the summer months on the Northern Beaches... and still for the hard core ones during the winter.
This is a very popular area... lots of muggles.
The 50-metre rock baths at Dee Why are easily reached by the promenade walk. Pool complex consists of two pools, the older main pool and a newer wading pool. Formed by mass concrete walls and incorporating an outcrop of sandstone on one side. This pool complex is a popular subject for photographers.
1912 to 1915
Members of the Dee Why surf club founded in 1912 carved a pool about 20-foot square by hand out of the rock shelf at the southern end of Dee Why Beach.
1915
On 14 February, a Swimming Bath committee was formed and decided to ask Warringah Council to provide the funds and engineering to enlarge the original rock pool. The surf club also undertook fund-raising.
1919
The enlarged baths were officially opened on 27 December. The pool was taken over by the Council and further enlarged between 1919 and 1930.
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1970s
Warringah Council decided to build a second storey onto the men's clubhouse near the pool to accommodate the Ladies Club. Shire President, Cr Col Huntingdon, officially opened this Ladies clubhouse on 8 November 1970. Working bees developed a club house that was the envy of other sports clubs
The introduction of daylight saving in 1972, the 50th anniversary year for Dee Why Ladies Club, meant Wednesday night club races were swum without floodlights.
A new 25 metre by 10 metre wading pool was provided in 1973 inside the secondary pool, which had been much damaged over the years.
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2000
The pool was heritage listed by the National Trust. Dee Why rock pool was closed for two months in the winter and the $330,000 pool upgrade funded jointly by Warringah Council and the NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation was completed on time for the start of the swimming season. Warringah Council added special ramps to improve access, new outdoor showers, lights and handrails and installed an emergency button (a radio-based emergency response system) at the pool. As the upgrade did not include a change-room, parents and carers continued to change young children on the toilet floor unless a cubicle was free.
2001
After taps on the pool's newly installed showers were vandalised and repaired, their design was amended to make them more difficult to damage. A new emergency button was installed at the pool.
2004
Work to build a change-room on the end of the existing building was scheduled after April, as Council did not want to shut down such a high-profile site during peak season. Some pool patrons could boast 40 years of experience of regular early morning swims at Dee Why Pool during the warmer months of the year.
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