Here’s one for the swimmers

Each year Lochmara Lodge host a swimming event across Lochmara Bay as part of their annual fun festival.   It is a 750m swim from across Lochmara Bay back into Lochmara.  The lodge provide transport across the bay and coordinate boat support for swimmers participating for safety.   It is a great training swim, or just for fun.  

The winner gets their name on the shield (on display in the café), and the prize for the top male and top female home is a night for two at the Lodge!  It’s open to age 16 and over.   This year the event is on Saturday 10 March at 11.30am.   Entry is free, and if you don’t have your own transport they are doing return transport from Picton for $20pp, the proceeds of which go to the Marlborough Sounds Wildlife Recovery Trust.   Of course, it is always possible to kayak in/out, or to bike or run in and/or out on the Queen Charlotte Track – they are  are about 21km from Anakiwa and you can bike all of it – MTB not road obviously.  

There are lots of other things happening for adults and kids as part of the Fun Festival, including live music all day, facepainting, storytelling and treasure hunts for kids, wine tasting, live performances and the tug of war competition at 3pm, plus all the regular things that Lochmara offers – the walking tracks, art, wildlife, café, and so on, so it is family affair and participants could make a day of it.   

For more information you can contact Allanah Robinson  577 7 313 or mobile 027 494 1411.

Opawa Blast results

Check out the results here for the summer Opawa Blast kayak series.

Marlborough Quadrathon 2012 Sunday 18 March

Kayaks ready to go at Waikawa in last years Quadrathon

WAIKAWA BAY to WHITES BAY.

Cash prize for top Male and Female

Loads of spot prizes including a new Flow Kayak paddle valued at $599.

This years race see’s a course change in the kayak, cycle and run legs.  Starting again on the Waikawa Bay foreshore, swimmers will again do a loop course heading south before returning to the jetty area. Kayakers from here will paddle directly north and go into Whatamango Bay before rounding a buoy and returning back to Waikawa Bay foreshore.
Cyclists will head into Picton, then leave over the elevation heading south, and go all the way to Monkey Bay carpark at Rarangi. Runners will then run over to Whites Bay, then head on an out and back loop of the scenic Black Jack track.

The finish line will be next to the beach at Whites bay, where the Rarangi Surf life saving club
will again be running a barbeque and have refreshments available

This years event has some awesome prizes up for grabs including wine from Forrest Estate, Cycling apparel and acccessories from Ray and the team at Cycle World, cash prize for fastest individual open man and woman, and a new Flow Paddle from Flow Kayaks in Nelson. Flow is owned by Andrew Martin and Richard Ussher who are designing the latest in kayaks and paddles.

A Total prize pool of almost $ 2000

If you want to enter, but don’t have a swimmer or kayaker for example, just forward an email through to me and I can make up some teams as in previous years

For further info email Dave Hansen

hansen2000@slingshot.co.nz

Download an entry form here

Photos from last years event are here