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Members of the Wollongong Whales winter swim club received their baggy black caps for reaching the milestone of 200 plus swims for the club at their end of season meeting. Video by Agron Latifi and Adam McLean.

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00:14So tell me a bit about the club, firstly.
00:17The club was established in 1959. It was a combination of two surf clubs that came together, North Wollongong, and
00:25also city surf clubs that came together.
00:28When they didn't have anything to do in wintertime, this is what they did. They came together and formed the
00:33world of Wales.
00:34And mate, today was a special day. There was a couple of important caps that ended out, wasn't there?
00:39Yeah, so the caps represent how many swims that the guys have had.
00:44So we went from 200 swims all the way up to a record. Kenny Jessup, he'd got 1,100 swims.
00:51So that's a phenomenal effort over many, many years.
00:54It's really good. It's a club. It's based up around swimming and they're getting together.
00:58And obviously we chat about, you know, it's a men's health club, I guess, really, essentially.
01:03We talk about things, anything from personal issues to, you know, needs a bit of support, point them in the
01:10right direction.
01:10Just have a chat and, yeah, help each other out.
01:13To come back to a...
01:14...
01:14If I ask, if you have a question, look at, get to speed up the night and doing time on
01:18summer,
01:18we need to jump up to a cycle.
01:19To come back to the day, we're gonna, yeah, have a pretty hard semester there so Boyd
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