Hundreds of keen swimmers have crossed the world's busiest coal port for Newcastle's traditional open water swim. Some of them were a bit dazed getting out of the water after navigating choppy conditions.
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00:00 Fancy taking a dip into the Hunter River at Newcastle?
00:05 Normally that's a pretty bad idea because this is the world's busiest coal port.
00:10 Normally there are massive bulkers going back and forth here at all times of day taking
00:14 coal all over the world.
00:16 But on Australia Day they take a break allowing hundreds of swimmers to cross the river.
00:21 Some just go once, others like to go back and forth.
00:24 It's pretty popular and it's one of Australia's richest open water swims.
00:28 It was a bit rough, really high waves.
00:30 Yeah it was tough to do it, first time on water so not too bad.
00:34 Yeah it was tough but a lot of chop but it was good yeah.
00:38 Big sleep and it was just hard to kind of figure out where you were going.
00:42 Oh man that was hard.
00:43 I was just following the boys mainly.
00:46 I've drunk so much salt water out there I'm incredibly dehydrated.
00:49 I was being beaten up by those waves.
00:52 It was incredible.
00:54 We're definitely feeling the effects of this heatwave here in Newcastle.
00:57 We've got a lot of winds and the water's pretty choppy but most importantly there's been no
01:02 signs of sharks.
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