Wonderful Swimming Conditions at Shoal Bay

Shoal Bay Beach provides for 2 km + open water swimming in perfect conditions

Water temp. 18 c and flat smooth swimming. They call Graeme Wolfenden ‘Molly’ among the Shoal Bay Whalfies who number about 47 however they don’t all swim every day, on this sunny day the 9.00 am start attracted 14 swimmers. Some have asked about the Broughton Island 18 km marathon swim that was scheduled for April 2018. The swimmers advised that the swim had been called off due to about 22,000 king fish escaping from the fish farm in Port Stephens which attracted a shark feeding frenzy.