Wylie's Baths

This guide to Wylie's Baths in Sydney follows Mina Wylie, who grew up training in the tidal pool her father Henry built into the rocks at Coogee in 1907. It traces the 1912 fight over an official's refusal to fund women swimmers for the Stockholm Olympics, and the public backlash on Mina and her rival Fanny Durack's behalf. The pool below is still the oldest surviving communal sea bath in the country, filled twice daily by the tide.