Two men airlifted out of Royal National Park’s notorious Figure 8 pools

Kate McIlwain
Updated July 25 2016 - 11:18am, first published 10:05am
Pretty dangerous: Tourists are drawn to the picturesque pools to pose for photographs. Picture: Wolter Peeters.
Pretty dangerous: Tourists are drawn to the picturesque pools to pose for photographs. Picture: Wolter Peeters.

The photogenic but dangerous Figure 8 pools have struck again, after two men had to be flown to safety from the Royal National Park rock shelf on Sunday night.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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