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Best Swimming Holes

Around Brisbane
Cedar Creek Falls

Brisbane is surrounded by beautiful bushland that is home to fantastic rock pools and swimming holes, the perfect places to cool off for free on hot summer days. Here's 7 of the best:

Enoggera Dam
Enoggera Dam The Gap
Enoggera Dam, Brisbane’s heritage-listed water reservoir dating from 1866, is The Gap’s bush water playground and one of Walkabout Creek’s leading attractions.
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Bunya Riverside Reserve
Bunya Riverside Reserve
Bunya Riverside Reserve, also known as Bunya Crossing, has a deep waterhole which is perfect for swimming, kayaking, canoeing and fishing
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Kondalilla Falls
Kondalilla Falls National Park
Kondalilla Falls National Park occupies a stunning corner of the Blackall Ranges in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. The highlight of any visit is a refreshing
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Cedar Creek Falls
Cedar Creek Falls, Mt Tamborine
One of Tamborine Mountain's most popular tourist attractions with stunning views over the open canyon, waterfall and rock pools
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Rocky Hole
People swimming in Rocky Hole Mt Mee
Rocky Hole is an idyllic series of bush rock pools in the Mt Mee section of D’Aguilar National Park, that makes a great natural swimming spot on a hot summer’s day
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Currumbin Rock Pools
Currumbin Rock Pools
One of the Gold Coast's best-kept secrets, the Currumbin Rock Pools can be found in the picturesque Currumbin Valley
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Cedar Creek Rock Pools
Cedar Creek Pool
Spend an afternoon with the bellbirds and kookaburras at the rock pools of Cedar Creek, just ten minutes drive past Samford
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Check out our full guide to all of the best free swimming pools, including lagoons, rock pools and tidal pools around Brisbane HERE

 

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