Route — South Africa

Blouberg - Melkbosstrand

7.9 km
Distance
Big Bay, Bloubergstrand ↔ Melkbosstrand
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · Copernicus Sentinel data

The crossing

Big Bay, Bloubergstrand ↔ Melkbosstrand: 7.9 km between start and finish coasts. Our archive contains 2 crossings by swimmers from 1 countries.

Distance is the shortest straight line between the start and finish coastal stretches, not the GPS track length: currents cause swimmers to cover much more distance.

Source: Cape Long Distance Swimming Association. Crossings as recorded by the body that ratified them.