How many years have I been meaning to go to The Basin? Over thirty is the answer. Finally I found the time for the 90 minutes bus ride from the city to Palm Beach, then the ferry ride across Pittwater.
The Basin is a camping and day use picnic area in Ku-rin-gai Chase National Park. There are grassy and wooded areas on the shores of Pittwater and an inland lagoon. There are swamp wallabies and goannas everywhere.
You can swim right off the sandy beach into Pittwater and over the seagrass meadows, but I was more interested in swimming in the netted lagoon so that I could finally add it to this blog. The net is across the narrow inlet to the lagoon. Strangely, there is a sign warning swimmers that the wire net is only there to prevent water craft entering the lagoon, though it seems highly unlikely that a shark could get in.
Could this perhaps be the final length of this long swim around Sydney? I don't know of another tidal rock pool or swimming enclosure, but then I was surprised by the rock pool in Lurline Bay a couple of weeks ago. So, I may yet post again. We'll see.
The Basin is a camping and day use picnic area in Ku-rin-gai Chase National Park. There are grassy and wooded areas on the shores of Pittwater and an inland lagoon. There are swamp wallabies and goannas everywhere.
You can swim right off the sandy beach into Pittwater and over the seagrass meadows, but I was more interested in swimming in the netted lagoon so that I could finally add it to this blog. The net is across the narrow inlet to the lagoon. Strangely, there is a sign warning swimmers that the wire net is only there to prevent water craft entering the lagoon, though it seems highly unlikely that a shark could get in.
Could this perhaps be the final length of this long swim around Sydney? I don't know of another tidal rock pool or swimming enclosure, but then I was surprised by the rock pool in Lurline Bay a couple of weeks ago. So, I may yet post again. We'll see.
Wire netting to enclose the swimming area
"Vessel exclusion net only. Swim at own risk"
Beyond the inlet, the lagoon opens out
The final length of my swim?
