Pool postcard: Manly, NSW

Let's change continents for a while and have a look at some Australian pools. My collection of vintage Australian postcards is not as large, and I'd love more!

This harbourside pool was built in 1931 by the Port Jackson Steamship Company. It opened in December that year and was described as "the finest swimming pool in Australia." It was the largest.

I swam here once, in January 1967. The boardwalks still existed, but I think the diving boards and waterwheels had disappeared by then. Does anyone else have any memories of swimming here?

It was destroyed in a huge storm in 1974. Cost defeated a 1984 proposal to rebuild the boardwalks.

The world's largest swimming pool

San Alfonso Del Mar Resort, Chile. 8 hectares, 1 km in length. 250,000 cubic meters of salt water fill the pool. Equivalent of approximately 6,000 backyard pools. $1.5 billion to build. Maintenance fees $4 million a year. Not somewhere I have swum, but what a fantasy!

Update (22 Nov 2021): We visited Chile in March 2020. I investigated this pool to see whether it is worth a trip, but, sadly, it is only available to the residents of the condominiums and resort of which it is a part.

Here's some more information from Wikipedia.