A big pool, because it is built for people who actually swim. Not to photograph. To use.
A Serious Pool
Eighty feet.
Eighty feet.
Built to swim in.
Natural stone underfoot. Green on all sides. Long enough for a real swim. Kept meticulously clean. One of the things guests remember most.
Bougainvillea above, fruit trees around it, and the farm moving quietly on every side.
The pool is not a token amenity. It is the centre of the day.
Natural stone. No plastic, no fake finishes. The same philosophy as the rooms.
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The size
Long enough to swim.
Long enough to swim.
Deep enough.
Why is it so big? Because eighty feet gives you enough length to swim properly.
A small decorative pool changes a photograph. A serious pool changes the day. Most hotel pools are too short for real swimming. This one gives you room to move. It is long, deep, and meticulous — designed to be used, again and again.
The setting
In the middle
In the middle
of the garden.
Trees and gardens on every side. Open sky above.
Bougainvillea climbs up to the sky. Fruit trees give shade through the day. Horses pass in the early morning. There is no concrete surround, no branded towels on plastic loungers, no DJ booth. The pool is inside a living place — and that living place makes itself known at every hour. Its pleasure comes from water, light, shade, and stillness.
The day
The same pool
The same pool
three different places.
Morning, afternoon, evening — the farm keeps changing around it, and so does the swim.
Morning
The pool is still. The farm is waking up.
A long swim before breakfast is one of the best ways to start a day here. This is when the real swimmers use the pool. The light is low. It comes through the fruit trees and across the water. The farm is beginning to move. It sets the tone for the day.
Afternoon
Swim, sunbathe, repeat. Read. Let time pass.
The pool makes idleness feel deserved. In the warmer months, you will spend your afternoons in the water. In peak winter — Dec and Jan — the water is cold for most to swim, but the stone decks become the perfect place to soak up the sun.
Evening
Gather quietly. Long, unhurried hours.
The pool is good for soft conversation, quiet reading, and the kind of time that does not need to be filled. It should never feel crowded or chaotic — and because the property is private, it rarely does. At night, the pool is quiet, lit, and easy to remember.
The design
Water. Stone.
Water. Stone.
Green. Sky.
Everything it needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Built from natural stone with careful detailing throughout. No plastic gratings or fake man-made things. Its beauty comes from scale, proportion, and its relationship to the surrounding farm — nothing unnecessary. The pool has been rebuilt and improved across several years. Its scale is simple, so the details have nowhere to hide: the stone, the edges, the waterline, the way it sits inside the farm.
Because the property is private and for selected guests, the pool keeps something most hotel pools have lost: the feeling that it is yours. Not shared with eighty strangers. Not managed by a pool concierge. Just a long stretch of clean water on a quiet farm, for the few who found their way here.
Never finished
Built once.
Built once.
Rebuilt twice.
Currently on version three. Forty-six years of getting closer to right.
It started as a pond, dug to water the young trees while the farm itself was still being planted. It became a swimming pool later, then was rebuilt again for guests who wanted real laps, not simply a place to cool off.
Almost everything great here can be traced back to a guest. In 2018, Dorothy, an 80-year-old British woman who swam a kilometre every day, finally convinced me that she should only have to count 20 laps. You can thank her for the pool.
