About The Macquarie Bank Big Swim
The Macquarie Bank Big Swim is thought to be New South Wales longest continuing running ocean swim with its first start in 1974.
Presented by the Whale Beach Surf Lifesaving Club in association with Macquarie Bank, The Big Swim is a journey swim, not around the buoys in a bay, or up and down a beach outside the break but a true ocean swim, from Palm Beach to Whale Beach around the headland through the Tasman Sea.
The 2025 WBSLSC
The Macquarie Bank Big Swim and
McGrath Pittwater Little Big Swim
Held on the last Sunday of January each year with a distance of 2.5 - 2.8 km, it is known as The Big Swim because it is BIG. Conditions vary from dead calm to testing south-easterly or uncomfortable nor'easter’s, which can arrive early in summer with swells from all directions making for challenging swimming when you breathe to the left. It is a huge achievement to complete one swim, and some big swimmers have completed over 30 swims.
Next year’s event will take place on Sunday 26th January 2025, and kicks off at 8:30am with the McGrath Pittwater Little Big Swim. The Macquarie Bank Big Swim commences at 10am.
This 1km McGrath Pittwater Little Big Swim is around kiddies corner at Palm Beach. This is a perfect introduction to open ocean swimming with enormous water safety and a fabulous location for a short course swim.
This event is part of the Pittwater Swim Series whereby competing in just 3 of the 5 northern beaches swims you can win a Swim the Whitsundays tour donated by Oceanswims.
The Macquarie Bank Big Swim
2.8km swim from Palm Beach to Whale Beach
McGrath Pittwater Little Big Swim
Beginners event at Palm Beach
WANT TO ENTER?
You can enter The Macquarie Bank Big Swim and or The McGrath Pittwater Little Big Swim through the oceanswims.com online entry facility - click the Register Here button below. Online entries close at 3pm Saturday 25th January 2025; the day prior to race day.
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