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One Ocean Swim Day 16
Wow, it’s Day 16… We finally get to swim after 4 days of waiting for the strong South Wester to pass. Today, we could take a slower morning, which was good because we needed to pack everything up in 2 new cars. It was a challenge reconfiguring everything, but we...
One Ocean Swim Rest Days
Downtime in Coffee Bay It is day 3 of our downtime in Coffee Bay. I spent most of Saturday cleaning the trailer, consolidating food and just organising my brain. I also uploaded all the pictures and ideas from the past 3 weeks and tried to catch up with myself. Sarah...
One Ocean Swim Day 15
Day 15 arrived, and we had another slightly later start. We left our venue at 6 am, which was a welcomed change, as we had to pack everything again to move to our next destination at Coffee Bay. The challenge we have been facing in the Transkei is; trying to keep our...
One Ocean Swim Day 14
Day 14 started with another 4 am wakeup. We packed up the trailer and loaded the car as it was time to move to our next destination – Umdumbe. It was a challenge for John to negotiate the small turning area at the top of a very steep and windy driveway, but with...
One Ocean Swim Day 13
Day 13, and thankfully we had a slightly later start, as we are finally staying closer to the launch site! I was up at 4 am after a decent sleep. We all met the boat at 5:30 am. Today, Angelika was finally able to join us on the boat as she did not have to drive...
One Ocean Swim Day 12
Day 12 was a super early start. We woke up at 3 am to pack the trailer, fridge and freezer stuff and head out to launch from Port Edward. We wanted to try to get a big day of swimming in as our next stop is in Port St Johns, which is 100km away. We arrived at Port...
One Ocean Swim Day 11
Day 11 is complete. We left the house at 5 am to get to the Shelly Beach launch site by just before 6 am. The launch was one of our easier ones, so we headed out to the starting line 30km out at sea. The water was super blue and clean, and we were excited to get in...
Rest Day
Yesterday was a rest day. I woke up at 5:20 am and got to work on some admin and sponsor requests before doing an hour-long podcast interview with Alex Macphail. Breakfast with two of my mates who came up for the night, Caron and Kirsten, followed. They will be...
One Ocean Swim Day 10
Day 10 was a great day out! When I woke up at 4 am (again), I felt pretty tired and stiff. We headed to Port Shepstone to a beautiful lodge on the river mouth called Umzumkulu River Lodge, owned by Brian Lange. He was very kind in letting us use his launch site. We...
One Ocean Swim Day 9
Thankfully, Day 9 started slightly later than usual. Despite the possibility of an extra hour's sleep, I woke up promptly at 4 am. At 5:30 am, we set off to meet the boat crew at the Pennington launch site. Today on the boat, we were joined by Sarah’s cousin, Wendy....
One Ocean Swim Day 8
Day 8 began with another 4 am start after a restless sleep. My brain was busy processing the previous day’s events and our serious lack of funding. We got busy with our morning routine of breakfast and packing the car. We then set off to meet Cassie and Frikkie at the...
One Ocean Swim Day 7
Day 7 was a bit of a crazy day. We had a rest day from swimming the day before however, it was incredibly stressful trying to organise a recovery session after the stormy swim I did the day before. The night before that swim, I spent time in the O2 chamber, got a...
One Ocean Swim Day 6
Day 6 was tough. We had our usual departure time at 4:45 am from Durban to get to Cassie’s house in Umkomaas. Wofty, Sarah and her son Heath were in the car. Sarah was driving so I could eat my cereal! We met Andy at Cassie’s spot, lathered up on sun cream and headed...
One Ocean Swim Day 5
Today marks Day 5. We had to do 2 swims today because we missed the mark yesterday (I am grateful that I do not need to do the maths to figure out all of the GPS points). Yesterday, we, unfortunately, missed 8km. Therefore, to stay true to my plan of swimming the...
One Ocean Swim Day 4
The day after rest day… The current was still going South-North today. It was another day of making a call on how fast the current would be and if we should take a gamble. Each day, my goal is to swim for 4-5 hours. My swim is based on time rather than distance....
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