Wild Swimming Basin

Clean waterways are a key signaller of a healthy and sustainable city. The Macquarie Point Vision proposes the rehabilitation of the outdated dirty sewage works into a pristine cool climate wild swimming basin and the ultimate signal of Hobart’s new healthy green future.

Swimming is fun, healthy, keeps you fit, can be competitive or social; young or old can participate; it is low impact and not expensive.

In summer, residents and tourists can see and be seen sunning on the basin’s shady edge while, in the depths of winter, hardy souls will gather like a fraid of shivering ghosts in the frosty jerry before slipping into its inky wetness for that icy life affirming dip.

The wild swimming basin would be created by removing the sewage works and diverting the Hobart Rivulet into the new natural basin.

By embracing the water’s pilgrimage from kunanyi to the Derwent we are celebrating the tangible connection of the site with the wider landscape.