Brilliant Sunday Morning at Alex Headland for our annual Solstice Swim
200 swimmers registered for our BIGGEST EVER Rotary Solstice Swim on Sunday. A fantastic morning, with MC Ken Boulton keeping everyone informed of the various swim legs, and Faith and teh Zumba ladies generating the atmosphere to pump up the swimmers. Mean while Chris and Lex and the amazing life savers were checking laying out the course with teh donated buoys from Suzanne and the team at Mooloolaba Yacht Club.
This was the view members saw at set up for the swim....beautiful
Soon it was time receive the safety briefing and to run through the starters arch (Thank you Moooloolaba Rotary) and get those anklets registered for the swim times. (Thank you Mooloolaba Paddlers).
The weather was just brilliant, calm, water conditions perfect, clear visibility, and those all important life savers following the different coloured caps designating the various swim legs (thank you Seaborne Clothing) and out into teh bay, where the water was a refreshing 22 degrees. (Is this winter??).
The 5km went off first, then the 3km men, followed by 3 km ladies and later the 1km men followed by the 1km ladies.
Unfortunately the gremlins struck around half way through the event, an the anklet system decided to misbehave and the individual time scores were lost, and haven't been seen since.
The winners of the various swim legs were:
5km Female Ketelyne Irwin
5km Male Zane Hadley
3km Female Karen Higgison
3km Male Keenan Gray
1km Female Amy Mullock
1km Male Jake Hammond
Big thank you for Andrew Wallace MP for making the presentations.
There's a selection of photo's on the club website (thanks Tony) and a few below.
BIG thanks to everyone involved. It was a great morning. Let's do it again next year..
Gerard is severely visually impaired..which is why he is attached to his mate, Jen Reed, by a cord
....and they have just completed the 5km swim. Both are champions in my book.
Our very own Michelle
Green caps setting off
and the red caps..
So glad thats all over....for another year
