The sun rise is purple and yellow over Lake Whakatipu in New Zealand, the mountains in the background and a duck in the foreground are silhouettes

Summer Solstice Swim

Summer Solstice Swim 2025 We’re celebrating the longest day of the year (the summer solstice) on Sunday 21st December 2025.  Yes, we know the solstice is technically the 22nd, but swimming on a Sunday means more people can join in.  There are two options:  Cruisy swimmers and dippers: Queenstown Bay dip Meet at 8am at …

Swimmers getting into the chilly waters of Lake Alta, The Remarkable

Lake Alta Swim

Celebrate the end of summer with a swim in Lake Alta on the Remarkables mountain range. It’s a lot of fun to swim in a lake before it freezes over, then ski over it a few weeks later!

Lake Whakatipu, on the way to Pigeon Island, on a calm and sunny day, looking towards the mountains in the distance

Pigeon Island swim

This is one of our most popular club swim events of the year! We’re going to swim the 2km from the eastern shore of Lake Whakatipu to Pigeon Island. We’ll have a picnic on the island and then swim or boat back. This is a members-only event, one of the perks of being a member …

Southern Lakes Swim Club open day attendees 2023

Southern Lakes Swimming Club Open Day 2024

Join us to celebrate the start of summer swimming in 2024! If you’re new to Queenstown or open water swimming, come along for tips, tricks and a dip in the fresh waters of Lake Whakatipu. We’ll have coffee and biscuits in the Scout Hut afterwards. When: Sunday 17th November 2024 (the day after the Queenstown Marathon) …

woman doing yoga for swimmers on Queenstown beach

Yoga for Swimmers

Yoga for swimmers event with Jo Woolley Yoga    Learn some yoga moves to help and improve your swimming at this free event!   Jo will lead you through a series of yoga postures that are especially beneficial to swimmers. With regular practice, the right style of Yoga can improve body posture (and thus body position in the water) and increase the range …

Coffee Boat Swim

It’s time for our annual swim to Coffee Afloat, the barge which serves coffee on the Lake Dunstan Trail. We’ll meet in Cromwell and carpool to the start of the swim. Then we swim downstream to the boat, have a coffee and a bite to eat. Afterwards there’s the option to swim or catch a …

TSS Earnslaw ship on Lake Wakatipu

Swim race offers a chance to leap from the TSS Earnslaw

The Whakatipu Legend open water swim event is offering swimmers a unique opportunity to leap from a historic steamer boat in Queenstown. On 23rd March 2024, swimmers competing in Queenstown’s Whakatipu Legend 4km swimming race will be ferried out into Lake Whakatipu on the century-old TSS Earnslaw. They’ll then leap from the historic ship to start …

The sun rise is purple and yellow over Lake Whakatipu in New Zealand, the mountains in the background and a duck in the foreground are silhouettes

Summer Solstice Swim 2023

Summer Solstice Swim!! It’s the Longest Day of the year on Thursday 21st December To celebrate we’re having a swim!! 5:45am (!) at Queenstown beach (by the Bathhouse) for a sunrise swim in Queenstown Bay.   Afterwards we’ll grab some coffee from whereever is open in town.  For those who are super adventurous, a few will …