The Swimming Pool

September 1982 to July 1985

Marcopper Swimming Pool Photos from 1982-85 - Click to Expand

Film photographs, digitally restored. Fine details—especially faces, numbers & letters—may appear distorted when enlarged or expanded.

A man in sunglasses and a striped shirt standing beside a white pole at the swimming pool. Two men standing beside the blue swimming pool, with tropical trees and green hills behind them. The swimming pool and diving board beneath a blue sky, surrounded by tropical greenery and hills. Swimmers in the pool beside a thatched sunshade, with hills in the distance. A boy holding the edge of a red inflatable mattress beside a woman floating in the pool. A tall fan-shaped tropical tree beside the diving board and swimming pool ladder. Three children playing with plastic bats and a ball on the lawn beside the stone-faced clubhouse. Two boys eating at a shaded white table beside the swimming pool. A woman wrapped in an orange towel sitting on a step at the edge of the pool. A boy jumping into the swimming pool with his arms spread while another boy watches. A woman standing beside a man seated under a thatched poolside sunshade. Children playing with an inflatable mattress in the pool while others stand beside the lounge chairs. A person climbing a white pole in front of the stone-faced clubhouse. Swimmers and children around the pool, with lounge chairs, a thatched sunshade, and hills behind. People walking around the swimming pool beneath tropical trees and green hills. Adults and children relaxing with drinks on lounge chairs and white chairs beside the swimming pool, with green hills behind them.

The Swimming Pool at Marcopper

The swimming pool at Marcopper was far more than simply a place to swim. Set near the clubhouse and golf course, it became one of the central gathering places of my life on Marinduque—a familiar setting where ordinary afternoons could turn into hours of imagination, freedom, and fun.

The diving board, the deep water, the warm pavement on sunny days, and the sound of voices beneath the surface are all lasting parts of the memory. Swimming during a tropical rainstorm was especially unforgettable: looking up from underwater as the rain struck the surface made the pool feel like its own small world.

It was a place to be active, inventive, and completely absorbed in the moment. The games were often created as we went along, and the pool seemed to offer endless possibilities. Looking back, it represents much of what made my years at Marcopper so special—the freedom of youth, a strong sense of community, and the joy of growing up in a place unlike anywhere else.

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Marcopper Swimming Pool Photos from 1982-85

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