Ocean baths outside NSW & Australia

The definition of ocean baths used in this project excludes:
- the Sydney Harbour pools,
- the netted and slatted enclosures used in northern Australia for protection against marine stingers, and
- the bay pools of the type found in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria.

The Australian state of Queensland has:
- a post-World War II ocean pool on the Sunshine Coast at Kings Beach, Caloundra, and
- a plaque in a Coolangatta carpark commemorating the Jack Evans Porpoise Pool at Snapper Rocks. Created as a baths for residents and visitors, that pool became the venue for performing dolphins and a major visitor attraction for the Gold Coast. Cyclone damage to the Snapper Rocks pool led Jack Evans to create a new Porpoise Pool over the NSW border at Tweed Heads. That later pool that does not fit the definition of an ocean pool as used in this project.

Western Australia has Anastasia's Pool near Broome, a tidal pool created by the lighthouse keeper for his arthritic wife.

Ocean baths also exist in:
- New Zealand (Dunedin's St Clair Hot Salt Water Baths),
- South Africa (Around Capetown, Mossel Bay, East London and the coast north and south of Durban),
- United Kingdom (Cornwall, Devon, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands), and
- USA (Hawaii).

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