Welcome to the best little open water swimming club in Queenstown
Kia ora! We’re the Southern Lakes Swimming Club – a not-for-profit social sports club that loves swimming in Lake Whakatipu (Queenstown) and beyond.
We’re here to help promote safe open water swimming in Lake Whakatipu and other lakes in the Southern Lakes region. The club welcomes swimmers of all kinds: lake swimming obsessives, tentative toe-dippers, Ironman triathletes and everyone in between.
We look forward to swimming with you.
Swimming in Queenstown
We swim in Lake Whakatipu on Saturdays, 9am, throughout the year, as well as at other ad hoc days and times, which are organised through our group chat.
Southern Lakes Swimming Club runs social swimming events for members and we train together in the pool and open water for swim races and personal challenges.
Our official home is a designated swimming lane on the Frankton Arm of Lake Whakatipu (near the Coast Guard building and the Scout Hut).