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Swimming Sydney is a tale of 52 swims in and around Sydney that take place over the course of a calendar year. From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi, Chris Baker swims at iconicbeaches, municipal pools, harbour enclosures, hidden rivers, tidal rock pools, bushland lakes and in a backyard pool.Taking his weekly plunges, he swims with the many tribes of Sydney: a septuagenarian aqua aerobicsclass; a six-month-old baby learning to swim; a Saturday morning LGBTQIA+ swim squad; asylumseekers finding refuge in a Western Sydney pool; a cancer survivor at Bondi Icebergs. Splashing, paddling, floating or doing serious laps, Baker muses on mental health, nudity, real estate, ancestors, climate, sexuality, class, cinema, spirituality, mortality and family. And how swimming can help us understand ourselves, our city and our island nation.

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Chris Baker is a lifelong swimmer, educator and writer who was born and raised in Sydney. He has spent much of his professional life overseas, living and working in Vancouver, Prague, Hong Kong and Berlin. Chris was lured back to Sydney by its beautiful beaches, superb municipal pools, wild swimming holes and world-famous ocean baths. His favourite swimming venue in the world is Wylie’ s Baths in south Coogee.

Summer1 Rites of passage: Shelly Beach, Manly2 Fraternité : Clovelly Beach3 Moonlight: Mahon Pool, Maroubra 4 ‘ May you be well … ’ : MacMasters Beach5 Ancestors: Nielsen Park and Parsley Bay Reserve, Vaucluse6 Miracles and ghosts: Giles Baths, Coogee7 The water view: Greenwich Baths8 At the movies: Mount Druitt Swimming Centre9 Feng shui: Garie Beach, Royal National Park10 ‘ Always was, always will be’ : Victoria Park Pool, Camperdown11 Dog paddles and pluto pups: Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre12 Storm clouds: Cockatoo Island13 The Swimming Pool Library: Andrew ‘ Boy’ Charlton Pool, SydneyAutumn 14 Grandfathers: Watsons Bay15 #shack: Burning Palms, Royal National Park 16 Bare truths: Lady Bay Beach, Sydney Harbour National Park17 The siren: Tamarama Beach 18 Dawn in April: Dawn Fraser Baths, Balmain 19 The sacred and the profane: North Curl Curl Rock Pool20 The children: Mermaid Baths, North Bondi 21 The pen is mightier than the board: Thirroul Pool 22 Puberty Blues: Gunnamatta Bay Baths, Cronulla 23 Exile and quarantine: Little Bay Beach 24 Our pool: MacCallum Pool, Cremorne Point 25 The Secret River: Brooklyn BathsWinter 26 On Golden Pond: Lake Parramatta27 Red leaves and Rose: Murray Rose Pool, Double Bay28 The Golden Girls: Annette Kellerman Aquatic Centre, Marrickville 29 Wild swimming: Glenbrook Gorge, Blue Mountains National Park 30 The crypt: Cook + Phillip Park Pool, Sydney 31 Nobody’ s gone surfing: North Narrabeen Rock Pool 32 Bridges: National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern33 Wade: Marrinawi Cove, Barangaroo34 Grand design: Prince Alfred Park Pool, Surry Hills35 Swimming with Frankie: Pacific Swim School, Crows Nest36 Safe harbour: A haven for asylum seekers37 Beyond blue: Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre Ultimo38 Can too!: Bondi Icebergs PoolSpring 39 Gold, silver, bronze: Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre 40 Cook and oil: Brighton-Le-Sands Beach 41 As she told me: McIver’ s Ladies Baths, Coogee 42 The backyard pool: Engadine 43 Shells, snakes, survival: Little Congwong Beach, La Perouse 44 The film set: Palm Beach 45 Skin: Maroubra Beach 46 We can be heroes: Obelisk Beach, Sydney Harbour National Park 47 The superstar: Bondi Beach48 Away from her: South Cronulla Rock Pool 49 City of joy: Bronte Baths 50 ‘ The swamp’ : Lawson Swim Centre, Upper Blue Mountains 51 The underwater bushwalk: Gordons Bay Summer 52 Mina and Joana: Wylie’ s Baths, Coogee

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Swimming Sydney A tale of 52 swims

Swimming Sydney A tale of 52 swims

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