Big swims all 'round - Palm-Whale, Queenscliff...

It was a big weekend for big swims... 493 at Queenscliff, 96 at The Bloody Big Swim, and 1,831 at Palm-Whale in Sydney.

Thanks to Debbie Racklyeft for pic above. Interesting to see how many punters "missed" or almost missed the last booee.

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Newcastle, MMAD, Glenbawn, Scarborough, Clifton, Grange... etc

What a luvverly day in Newcastle, and on Port Phillip Bay... We had a lovely double-crossing of Newcastle Harbour, whilst Aquagirl had a half empty tank at Mt Martha, the corollary of a big week in Adelaide for the Tour Down Under.

Check out our reports, then come back here and tell us about your Stray'a Day, and your comments on your swim...

Mona Vale, Port Campbell, Sorrento/Rotto Rehearsal...

Grey day at Mona Vale... how was your swim? Click the comments button below to tell us...

Avalon, Portsea, Torquay, Cape Patterson, Marion, Cott, Perth...

Swims all over the place... we did Avalon on Sunday. Record numbers at 1041, and a grey suited visitor during the swim... What was your swim like... Hit the "Comments" button below...

Bumpy at Bondi, lovely at Lorne, stunning at Sorrento...

Lovely day at Bondi today, but what a contrast between the two swims! The 1km was swimmng in a millpond, but the 2km was bumpy as all get out, once the seabreeze came in from the sou'-east. Alew Warwar tweeted, too, that the 1km had more starters than the 2km. We'll check that and let you know. V. interesting if that's the case.

In Victoria, we saw the Lorne Pier to Pub on the TV news. Got a great run. One of our plants there, Big Ted, tell us they had near perfect conditions with a following breeze, incoming tide, 19 deg C water, and glorious sun. We have another plant, Aquagirl, who is doing a report for us, including Sorrento, which she did on Sunday as a warm down (and Big Ted was planning to do, too).

Scarborough and Albany in the West, Seacliff in SA...

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1,000 turn out in "driving rain"...

We had a lovely day, a lovely day at Black Head, on the lower north coast, for the first inaugural Head2Head Ocean Swim, and we hear many others had a terrific day, too, at Newport. We'll bet they did at Gerringong, as well, but we haven't heard from anyone there yet.

Black Head had 210 on their first outing, with more than half fronting on the day. A great result in a wet, drizzly day. We're told Newport had 450, which is fantastic in the "driving rain", according to ocean swimming twitterers.

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