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Where you can swim near Port Fairy — the nearest year-round pool, the summer beaches, and what's being done about a local pool.
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Where you can swim near Port Fairy — the nearest year-round pool, the summer beaches, and what's being done about a local pool.
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Port Fairy has had no indoor or heated pool of its own since Belfast Aquatics closed.
10 Queens Road, Warrnambool · ~28 km / ~27 min drive via the Princes Highway (A1)
Opening hours change with the season — check aquazone.com.au before you drive over.
Getting there: Bus Route 8 runs between Warrnambool, Koroit and Port Fairy, operated by Warrnambool Bus Lines (Transit South West). Check the timetable and the nearest stop to Queens Road before relying on it.
AquaZone — Warrnambool Aquatic and Leisure Centre
Source: Warrnambool City Council / AquaZone, checked 3 July 2026 (last month).
East Beach, Port Fairy
Source: Port Fairy SLSC / Visit Great Ocean Road, checked 3 July 2026 (last month).
Pea Soup, Port Fairy
Mortlake, Macarthur and Hawkesdale — inland Moyne Shire towns, 40–70 km away
Closed in winter. Check Moyne Shire for this season's opening dates.
Source: Moyne Shire Council, checked 3 July 2026 (last month).
Open water is not a pool
Belfast Aquatics — Port Fairy's only indoor, year-round, all-abilities pool — closed in November 2025 after mould and structural problems were found, and on 26 May 2026 Moyne Shire Council voted to decommission and demolish it. Repairs had been estimated at more than $3 million.
Alongside that decision the council prepared a Moyne Aquatic Facilities Strategy 2026–2036, tabled on 30 June 2026. It recognises the shire needs a year-round indoor facility and recommends a feasibility study into a new indoor pool for Port Fairy and district — focused on the things a bigger centre doesn't cover: warm-water therapy, hydrotherapy, learn-to-swim and community wellness for an older population. Nothing is funded or built yet; the strategy and its consultation are the place to follow it and have your say.
Source: Moyne Shire Council / Australasian Leisure Management, checked 3 July 2026 (last month).
AquaZone, Warrnambool
Nearest year-round pool · ~28 km / ~27 min drive via the Princes Highway (A1)
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