Fairy Bower Sea Pool
Triangular ocean pool carved into sandstone, guarded by bronze sea-nymph sculptures on its seaward edge.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Fairy Bower Sea Pool in Sydney opens on a storm in June 2016, when a concrete toilet block tore loose and slammed into one of the ceramic sea nymphs guarding the pool's seaward edge. It traces the pool's own history, hand-carved from the sandstone shelf by local residents in 1929 on the site of an 1858 pleasure garden called the Fairy Bower. You'll hear about sculptor Helen Leete, who made the Oceanides in ceramic decades before that storm night. Look to your right, at the rock edge facing the open sea, as you listen.
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