February 21, 2025
Pictured: a woman floats in the ocean. Photo credit: Emily Goodhart via Unsplash.

Swimmers make waves outside of Fremantle; leave ships in their wake!

Water you waiting for? Just dive in!

That’s what will be happening at the 35th Annual Rottnest Channel Swim, WA, which will be making a splash of things this Saturday 22 February 2025 from 05:45 am to 17:00.

Fremantle Ports has kept everyone in the swim of things by issuing a Navigation Warning.

Use of the Port, including the deep-water channel, will be restricted from 06:00am until 12:00pm.

Commercial shipping will resume following clearance by the event organisers.

The South32 Rottnest Channel Swim is a 19.7km open water swim from Cottesloe Beach (Mudurup) to Rottnest Island (Wadjemup).

If you want to go along do a bit of spectating to sea what’s going on, the first wave of swimmers leaves from Cottesloe Beach at 5.45am and the last wave of swimmers leaves at 07:40am.

The first pod of swimmers will dolphinately arrive at Rottnest Island at about 10:00am, so you whale want to be there for at least 09:30 am.

If everything goes swimmingly, then the organisers say that there will “be plenty of entertainment and activities for the whole family before, during and after the swimmers arrive on the Island”.

You can find out more about this particular motion in the ocean by visiting the  website of the South 32 Rottnest Channel Swim 2025.

It’s swim-tastic!

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