Swim Story 2019 The water temperature was nearly perfect at 24C/75F, air temperature was 21/22C with overcast skies and some sunny periods. The swimmers and crew were anticipating the winds picking up just as the swim traditionally gets tougher. Each day this past week, the winds have been strong with gust in the 25-35 km/hour […]
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Eighteenth Annual Swim
Swim Story 2018 A remarkable swim with less than ideal conditions! It was a lovely sunrise with a forecast of possible rain beginning at 0800 hours and finishing by 1100 hours. Twenty-one-ish degrees Celsius with 27.5C/80F water. Warm for a long swim – the overcast and cooler temperature great for our paddlers. That’s not exactly […]
Sixteenth Annual Swim for the Cure
Fifteenth Anniversary 12.8 Km Swim and Relays
Swim Story 2015 This was the first year that we began the swim anticipating that the swimmers would be pulled before finishing as the thunderstorm was predicted to begin as early as 1000 hours. In the end our day was nearly perfect with almost no wind, overcast skies reducing the sun exposure for the crew, […]
Fourteenth Annual 12.8 Km Swim and Relays
Swim Story 2014 This year we had 23 swimmers, 3 teams, one person completing a 7.8 solo swim and two swimmers completing a 3.5 km swim from Coulter Bay. It was the usual early morning and our day began and remained mostly overcast. The cloud cover is great for the crew and the unseasonably cooler […]