2020 Macquarie Big Swim
The fourth event in the Pittwater Swim Series, THE BIG SWIM presented by the Whale Beach Surf Lifesaving Club in association with Macquarie, is a journey swim from Palm Beach to Whale Beach around the headland through the Tasman Sea. 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.
The fourth event in the Pittwater Swim Series, THE BIG SWIM presented by the Whale Beach Surf Lifesaving Club in association with Macquarie, is a journey swim from Palm Beach to Whale Beach around the headland through the Tasman Sea. 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.