Island Challenge Ocean Swim, 2.4km, and Splash and Dash Swim, 1km

Sunday, November 30, 2008, 9.15am (1km), 10.30am (2.4km)

Registration for both events opens on Coogee beach at 8am and closes at 9am (1km) and 10.15am (2.4km)

Coogee SLSC

Express Glass

Thank you for supporting Coogee Surf Life Saving Club by taking part in the Glass Island Challenge.

This year, we are making it even easier for you to support us. oceanswims.com and Coogee SLSC have partnered with Everyday Hero to provide an online fundraising webpage for each participant. In just minutes, if you wish to take part, you can build your own page and approach your supporters for a donation by emailing them the unique link of your webpage. Each donation is recorded on your page along with any message of support from your supporters.

So get a head start and make sure you create an online fundraising page today!

You'll be able to keep tabs on the support you raise -- and on the total support raised by you and swimmers like you -- for this great community cause.

When you enter the Island Challenge online, you will have the option of clicking through to our special fundraising website with everydayhero.com.au to set up your own fundraising site.

Even if you don't choose to set up your site at the time of online entry, you can still take part -- just click here.

Island Challenge - start/finish Coogee Beach, circumnavigating Wedding Cake Island (weather permitting). If weather does not permit, course may be set inside the island.

Splash and Dash - circuit course inside Coogee Bay.

Coogee is a generally protected beach sitting inside Wedding Cake Island, and with long rock platforms heading south east, and a small one to the north.

But don't be fooled by this protection from the sea: this swim can be very bumpy. It's a swim in which no two strokes may be the same, given the chop that characterises this stretch of water. It makes the course very interesting, on top of the stunning nature of the swim around Wedding Cake Island.

1, 2, 3, in all categories, Male/Female. Coogee usually offers very good spot prizes, too, including generous cash. But, you must be there to collect, and you must be wearing your Express Glass tattoo, which you'll be given at registration.

Wear it with pride, conscious of the opportunity it offers. Don't be one of the pathetic mugs to have their numbers called out, only to be ruled out of the prizes because they've already washed the sticker off their persons.

Phone 02 9665 5138 or 0419 348 797, or email

Coogee SLSC

All swimming courses in the Express Glass Island Challenge and Express Glass Splash and Dash will be marked out with cans and will be patrolled by IRBs and surf ski paddlers. A fully equipped medical tent will be present on the beach with trained medical staff. A fluid station will be available.

Each competitor is responsible for his or her own physical condition and enters the event at his or her own personal risk. Any competitor who is still out on the Island Challenge course after 90 minutes will be asked to default and will be assisted to return to the start/finish via IRB.

The organisers reserve the right to change the 2.4km Island Challenge swim course on the day if it is deemed that weather conditions are too dangerous to swim around Wedding Cake Island. The amended course will be inside Coogee Bay and will be advised on the day of the event.

Teams are made up of four competitors.  All members of a team must first be entered as individual swimmers. Team members may be of any age (above 13 years) and either sex.  There are no provisions for age group teams or separate male and female categories.

Teams may enter either event or both events.

Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed teams based on the overall team time.  All swimmers must finish to be eligible for team prizes. 

Teams entered online must consist only of swimmers who have already entered individually online. Team members' individual entry (5-digit) registration numbers must be supplied with team entries.

Teams online entry deadline is one day earlier than individual online entry deadline. This is to allow for discrepancies and errors to be clarified. Team entries online close at midnight, Thursday, November 27, 2008.

After all team members have entered individually online, Team Manager must complete the Team Details form (see below) to register their team. Team details forms must include online registration id numbers of all team members (these 5-digit numbers are obtained when you enter on-line individually). Team entries will not be accepted without these registration id numbers.

Team affiliations will be noted alongside individuals' names on online entries progress list (see link below).

There are no team entries available on Race Day.

Click here to register your team

What a stunning swim this is! The main swim around Wedding Cake Island, we mean. The shorter swim is interesting because the water off Coogee can be bumpy. But the longer swim, if conditions allow the peloton to go around the island, is abslutely stunning.

Swimming around Wedding Cake Island is one of the most exhilarating experiences in ocean swimming in Sydney. The bottom around Wedding Cake is littered with rounded boulders on the inside, and with forests of weed and rock shelfs on the ocean side. There's a lot of sea life down there, all on display. It's enormous fun.

Individual entry: $30 (either swim) or $40 (both swims)

Race day entry: $40 (either swim) or $50 (both swims)

Lower entry fees apply to those entries receive online or by mail prior to swim day, Sunday, November 30, 2008.

Moral: Enter in advance.

NB: For online entries, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Attempts to enter using any other card will not succeed.

On-line entries close midnight, Friday, November 28, 2008.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER ONLINE

Click here to check progress entries on-line.

Click here to download entry form for more info and mail entry.