The Salty Bitches

About this episode

The episode explores the Salty Bitches, a community of women who swim daily in the sea, and their collaboration with the local yachting fraternity.

The Blue Room is on tour visiting Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula during Christmas 2025. And what better way to experience the coast here than swim with the famous Salty Bitches? This is a tribe of fun, inspiring and brave women (mainly) who love celebrating life by dipping daily in the sea off Indented Head. This tribe's joined up with the local Indented Head yachting fraternity and won a government grant to refurbish the ageing club. For the swimmers that means a great place to change, get warm with a hot shower, coffee and toast and importantly, chat post-swim. The teaming up of these two community-based groups could provide lessons to other towns around Australia on how to collaborate and benefit the whole community. This episode also includes a beautiful piece of creative writing by Gabrielle Maloney on what swimming means to her. Features: The Salty Bitches Roslyn McIntyre Gabrielle Moloney Heather Bisset Guest interviewers: Amanda and Nina

People in this episode

Host: sabra.lane

Guests: Amanda, Nina

Topics covered

• community
• swimming
• women's groups
• local collaboration
• creative writing

Keywords

• swimming
• community
• Bellarine Peninsula
• Salty Bitches
• women's empowerment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Salty Bitches

Places: Victoria, Bellarine Peninsula, Indented Head

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