This is what happens when a row of three swimmers stop abruptly on the booee to get their sightings.
It certainly was a big swim from Palm Beach to Whale Beach. The course was long -- we measured 3.03km, but we heard someone else say they had recorded 3.4km -- and sea conditions gave swimmers no assistance at all.
Message to drafters.
Our small but perfectly formed stall, Palm Beach.
Greg Barwell tweeted this agglomoeration of swim courses, as assembled by Strava. Who were the two who cut the third booee?
Here's our video report...
And our photo journalistic report...
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