Erin Killey winning the Laydees Dash for Cash at Caves Beach last sun
It certainly was good to get wet again last weekend. In NSW, it was our first ocean swims in three weeks. Not since Malabar on February 17 had we had an ocean event. Indeed, the only swim over that period was Wollongong Basin, planned as an ocean swim but withdrawn into the Basin when seas were up on swim day. Last Sat’dee in NSW, there was the lake swim at Narrandera, inland in the Riverina, whilst Sundee saw two ocean swims, atCaves Beach, by Lake Macquarie, and down south at Broulee. So, our season resumes.
Victoria had the longest swim in Stra’a, Giants of the Bay, which ran 30km from Portarlington, on the Bellarine Peninsula, to Pt Lonsdale, just inside the heads of Port Phillip Bay.
We have reports from Narrandera, where the peripatetic Neil Daley swam his first 10km event, in fresh water, too, and from Caves Beach, from where Jen Gwynne sent us a report, and Lizzie Crowhurst and Greg Hincks did blobs, to which we’ve linked. Glistening Dave took photograrphs and we took pitchers.
There were other swims on around Stra’a and New Zealand, and if anyone would like to send us reports, links to blobs, pitchers, etc, we’d be very glad to run them. Last weekend also saw Kingston Beach (Tasmania) — we don’t want to hear anyone pose the question, the late Senator Reg Wright’s clarion call, “What about Tasmania?” — Paraparaumu (NZ), Caloundra (Qld), Coogee (WA) — pronounced Coup-Jee locally — and Port Noarlunga on the public holidee in Sou’ Stra’a.
Victoria had the longest swim in Stra’a, Giants of the Bay, which ran 30km from Portarlington, on the Bellarine Peninsula, to Pt Lonsdale, just inside the heads of Port Phillip Bay.
We have reports from Narrandera, where the peripatetic Neil Daley swam his first 10km event, in fresh water, too, and from Caves Beach, from where Jen Gwynne sent us a report, and Lizzie Crowhurst and Greg Hincks did blobs, to which we’ve linked. Glistening Dave took photograrphs and we took pitchers.
There were other swims on around Stra’a and New Zealand, and if anyone would like to send us reports, links to blobs, pitchers, etc, we’d be very glad to run them. Last weekend also saw Kingston Beach (Tasmania) — we don’t want to hear anyone pose the question, the late Senator Reg Wright’s clarion call, “What about Tasmania?” — Paraparaumu (NZ), Caloundra (Qld), Coogee (WA) — pronounced Coup-Jee locally — and Port Noarlunga on the public holidee in Sou’ Stra’a.
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