Courses
Overview
- The course is a 880m perimeter rectangle with a large orange buoy in one corner and a large yellow one in the opposite corner. There are small yellow buoys marking the other two corners (The diagram on this page is clearer than the photo above!).
- Additional buoys show where you can turn and cut-across the rectangle for a short 360m loop (white buoys), or medium 490m loop (red buoys).
- All courses are swum in a clockwise direction (keeping the buoys on your right) starting and ending at the orange buoy which is 100m from the entry/exit ramp (so that's an additional 200m to the loop lengths).
Details
- Enter the water from the ramp
- Swim (100m) to the large orange buoy (A)
- Then swim to the first small yellow buoy (B), turn right and swim to the first white buoy (C)
- At (C), for the short loop turn right and swim to the other white buoy (H), else swim to the first red buoy (D).
- At (D), for the medium loop turn right and swim to the other red buoy (G), else swim to the large yellow buoy (E)
- At (E), turn right and swim to the other small yellow buoy (F).
- From (F), (G) or (H) swim back to the large orange buoy (A).
- At (A) you can start another loop by turning right and swimming to (B), or swim to the ramp if you want to exit the water.
Tip: On your first loop pause at (B) and note the trees beyond (E) are easier to sight on than the buoys. Similarly, at (F) or (G) there might be a better land-based feature to sight on than the big orange buoy.