Swimmers to make a splash at Queenscliff event

Jessica Benton
QUEENSCLIFF’S shorelines will be awash with wetsuits, swimming caps and the odd skimpy bathing suit tomorrow as hundreds hit the water for an annual Blue Water Challenge.
The Borough-coutas Masters Swimming Club event is a 1.2-kilometre open water swimming race for people of all abilities and fitness levels, aged from 14 years right up to over-70s.
Ocean Grove’s Ken Wise, 67, will line up again in typically casual fashion.
“In distance races I’m deliberately non-competitive,” he admitted.
“I walk into the water generally last and swim wide to avoid all the flailing arms and legs and all the crashes at the turning buoy but when I come out I reckon I’ve had the most enjoyable, smoothest swim.”
Mr Wise encouraged swimmers to enter the challenge.
“In my earlier days I was a runner but now I swim more than run because it’s kinder on my body,” he said.
The challenge starts midday at Queenscliff Pier.