Blue Pool, Victoria: Swimming hole near Briagolong

The Blue Pool in Victoria’s Briagolong State Forest is beautiful swimming hole inside the Firestone Creek gorge, Central Gippsland. Don’t expect warm water, though.

What is the Blue Pool, Victoria?

The Blue Pool is a swimming hole inside a gorge on Freestone Creek, Victoria. This natural waterhole in Central Gippsland is used as a swimming spot on hot days by locals, plus the occasional in-the-know traveller who knows where to find it.

Where is the Blue Pool, Victoria?

The Blue Pool is around 10km north-east of Briagolong in Central Gippsland, Victoria. It is on Freestone Creek, just south of the Froam Campground and Peregrine Lookout and within the Briagolong State Forest.

Access is via the Freestone Creek Road.

The nearest sizable towns to the Blue Pool, Briagolong, are Maffra and Stratford.

Stratford, 25km to the south, is on the Princes Highway. You’ll drive through on a road trip from Melbourne to Lakes Entrance or Melbourne to Mallacoota.

Is it safe to swim in the Blue Pool, Victoria?

It is reasonably safe to swim in the Blue Pool, Victoria, although obviously there is no lifeguard service here.

The two things to be aware of are the depth and temperature. The pool seems shallow when you first enter, but very quickly gets deep.

Also, brace yourself for the water to be cold. Admittedly, this can be wonderfully refreshing on a hot day, but the Blue Pool isn’t the spot for a swim on an overcast autumn morning.

On those not-so-warm days, content yourself with the short walk up to the nearby lookout over the gorge.