Best of Canberra ­­– river and lake swims

Kambah pool on a hot day, if the water level and flow is right

Why to swim in a lake or a river when one can crash at the neighbors and use their pool :p

Roksteddy said :

Shepherds Lookout is a beautiful spot, unfortunately its just downstream of the LMWQCC outfall. Make your own decisions on that. Apart from that, Angle Crossing, Pine Island, Kambah Pool, Casuarina Sands and Uriarra Crossing are all worthwhile checking out

The Murrumbidgee is pretty dirty, especially downstream at places like Uriarra and Shepherds lookout. Angle Crossing is too shallow. Cotter Bend is an excellent clear-water deep swimming hole.

Shepherds Lookout is a beautiful spot, unfortunately its just downstream of the LMWQCC outfall. Make your own decisions on that. Apart from that, Angle Crossing, Pine Island, Kambah Pool, Casuarina Sands and Uriarra Crossing are all worthwhile checking out

Do NOT swim in any of the lakes or pools in Canberra, we have manage to thoroughly trash them in the short time we have been here.

I will second Casuarina Sands and anything else far enough out of (our) harms way.

Not a natural spot but the Manuka Pool is a classic. Every time I look at it I want to do a commercial for anything, just so I’d have the excuse to put slim fit young people in swimmers set under Canberra’s clear blue skies surrounded by the pool’s white walls.

Then I wake up out of my revery to look around at what we have become and realise our days as a happily healthy nation are a dim memory.

I would not like to recommend any lake here at all. But we do like to go down to Uriarra crossing in summer or even Causurina Sands (sorry for the spelling mistakes have no idea how to spell them

Yesterday I went for a walk to Shephards Lookout which offers a good place for a dip in the Murrumbidgee River after the couple of kms of walking down some steep terrain. I then ventured out to Uriarra Crossing where there were so many dogs playing in the water – this is definitely the spot if you have a little furry mate!

Bombing range at Pine Island.