It can be done. In one go. One way.
Fifty plus people in September 2025 proved it so. And now we have a time: 3:15 to set the 14-km Kromme standard. The legend is born. Now the only question that remains is: what part of that legend will have your name on it?
Kromme in one go isn’t the kind of swim that anyone can do, but it is one that everyone can do. All shapes and sizes, skins, wetsuits, hair, no-hair did it in 2025, and on the 19 September 2026 a new bunch will test their stroke, their training, and their resolve. And the size of your smile. From one swimmer, beaming from ear to ear: “that was my best swim ever”.
This is a timed event, there are cut-offs, there are sand-banks and canals, there is a (harmless but solid) jelly fish or two. It will take training, it will take choosing the right line, it will take it out of you, but… you will have swum fourteen kilometres down one of South Africa’s longest tidal zones.
Starting at the foot of the upriver gorge from a really cool farmer’s riverside grass patch, you’ll navigate an island, watch jetties flow by, find the strongest part of the tidal push, head under a bridge, find your way through the canals, and land at the paddler’s club beach close to the small boat harbour. All the way down there will be accompanying paddlers, a safety boat, a ferry for feeds and relay change-over, and markers to show the way. It’s not a see-you-on-the-other-side swim, we’ll have your back all the way. But make no mistake, this is a swim of note.
Watch this space for more details closer to the time, but now you have a date – with a river and a legend. Saturday 19 September. Fourteen kilometres. Kromme in one go. You can do it.
