Figure Eight Pools
Twin ring-shaped rock pools on a wave-swept coastal shelf, reachable only by a steep six-kilometer hike.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Figure Eight Pools south of Sydney opens on a Monday when the wave risk chart reads extreme and a twenty-two-year-old student walks out onto the rock shelf anyway, with his friend knocked into the water beside him. It follows how a spot only locals once knew, reachable by a six-kilometer hike, became an Instagram magnet, and what a coastal scientist at UNSW calls an overcrowded death trap.
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