There are 34 rock pools in the Australian city of Sydney. They sit along the eastern edge of the beach suburbs, facing the ocean. Many are cut into the sandstone, and flushed by the tide and the waves - the last slaps of energy created in other worlds. People come to swim at dawn, to meditate, to save and be saved. To escape the summer heat and to defy the winter. This is Gadigal country and home to the Aboriginal people for 60,000 years before the English landed in 1778. They fished and sheltered here and looked out onto the same ocean. The pools occupy the headlands and between these are the beaches. They are all part of the same place. These pictures were taken in December 2024 and January 2025.
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