The Kootingal swimming pool will be packed this weekend as the local club holds a full-to-the-brim swimming carnival.
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Entries to Kootingal Moonbi Swimming Club's carnival filled over two weeks ago with 180 kids set to compete on Saturday.
"It's crazy. It shows how popular it is," Kooty coach Graham Johnstone said of the carnival.
Of those 180 kids, 48 will be from the Kooty club with the rest coming mainly from around the North West.
The carnival would normally attract swimmers from the coast and the Hunter Valley but clashes prevented that from happening this year.
"It's just so hard to get dates this year with covid and carnivals being cancelled earlier in the year," Johnstone said.
"There's been hardly any spare weekends."
Johnstone said the club may look at holding a two-day carnival in the future but for now were focused on this Saturday.
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Ben Jaffrey
Ben is a content curator and journalist for The Land. He has been with ACM since 2015 and first worked at The Area News and then at the Northern Daily Leader. Ben first joined ACM Agri as a digital journalist for all seven agricultural mastheads in 2022 before shifting to The Land full-time in 2023.
Ben is a content curator and journalist for The Land. He has been with ACM since 2015 and first worked at The Area News and then at the Northern Daily Leader. Ben first joined ACM Agri as a digital journalist for all seven agricultural mastheads in 2022 before shifting to The Land full-time in 2023.
