National Trust of Australia (NSW)

When the National Trust formed in 1946, its sole role was the preservation of cultural heritage whether built or 'natural'. While it was not the first group involved in the preservation of historic Australian building, it is still the best-known non-government heritage organisation in NSW. The National Trust publicly recognised the heritage value of many ocean baths well before the NSW government recognised any ocean baths had state-wide heritage significance

In the 1990s, a Survey of Harbourside & Ocean Pools of the Sydney Metropolitan Region was funded by the NSW Department of Planning's Heritage Assistance Program with assistance from the National Trust of Australia (NSW). Staff of EJE Landscape carried out the bulk of the work with assistance from the historian, Christa Ludlow.

This study identified several types of ocean baths:
- natural or shaped rock pools,
- rock and concrete pool,
- formed and enclosed pools, and
- remnant pools.

This study did not:
-  discuss pools of the ring-of-rocks type, and
-  mention the early ocean baths developed further to the north in Newcastle and to the south of Sydney in the Illawarra district.

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