Narrawallee Beach

Mollymook Ocean Swimmers Calendar for February 2022 

Greg, Sue and Mike are presently organising some exciting ocean swims in February, for the Mollymook ocean swimmers: 

On the morning of February 12/13 (will select the actual day, closer to the date when weather conditions are better known) the plan is to swim from Jones Beach (the little beach below Bannisters) to Narrawallee. A picturesque rock reef swim.

On the morning of February 19/20 (will select the actual day, closer to the date when weather conditions are better known) we will have the Welsh Island Classic. The plan is to start in front of Welsh Island, swim around the island then head south to Narrawallee’s south end and return. A magnificent breakfast will be provided by the sponsors of the Welsh Island Swim.

For more specific details, see Greg, Sue or Mike as the dates draw nearer.  😎

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NSW Country Surf Titles

The NSW Country Surf Championships will be held this weekend January 28 – 30, 2022 at Cape Hawke near Forster. Mollymook have a huge contingent participating in the nippers, junior, open and masters categories. One of our original ocean swimmers, a teenager back in 2000, Simone Brayne (nee Everett) will be competing in the masters female over 40 years category after making a successful comeback at last years championships winning the 35-39 years ocean swim and ironman events. Other notable entrants include; Ed Macartney, Tony Ireland, Robbie Scott to name a few.

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Sami Kennedy-Sim has been selected to compete at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games (Pic credit: Sami’s web site)

Mollymook connection to star at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games

Sami’s family have a holiday home in Mollymook. I sent an email to Sami congratulating her on selection for this year’s 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. She wrote back “Thank you for your warm wishes! It’s a very exciting time indeed! Have a swim for me (at Mollymook) – can you believe that I haven’t been in the water since last May! I even bought a new surfboard in May and have surfed it once before everything was out into lockdown when I was in the mountains!”

Channel 7 news announcement on January 22, 2022 quoted Sami; “I am so proud to have been selected to represent Australia at my third Olympic Games. Having an Olympics in a similar time zone to Australia means that I will feel connected with my friends and family – ski cross is on at prime time so I can’t wait to share this experience with everyone, I’m so excited.”

Even though Mollymook is a fair distance from the snow fields, we have a number of swimmers who make the annual trek to the snowy. Maybe when Sami gets back to Mollymook for a break, we may be able to get her to join us on one of our daily ocean swims at Mollymook Beach and a coffee at the Beach Hut café. Hopefully we will be swimming with an Olympic champ.

Sami’s web site link is: https://www.samikennedysim.com/           (Click on image below to enlarge for reading purposes)

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Sami’s record of achievement. (Pic credit: Sami’s web site. Click on image to enlarge)

Mollymook Ocean Swimmers

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