Location
Harbour Bridge to North Steyne beach Manly NSW
Date
March 9, 2008
Distance
21kms
Charity
Australian Paralympic Committee
About This Swim
On 9th of March 2008 I decided that I would do a swim to raise awareness and hopefully some funds for the 2008 Paralympians who would be competing in the 2008 Paralympic games in Beijing China later that year. I decided that I would go in the annual swim from Sydney Harbour Bridge to Manly wharf and then I would complete that part of the swim and then I would walk across to the other side of Manly wharf and get back in the water and swim around to North Steyne beach. My aim of this swim was that I would hopefully raise some awareness and money for the Paralympics and I was very happy when at Manly Wharf I met a Paralympian who had come down to meet me at the half way point of my swim. I had in place that if when I got to North Steyne beach if the surf conditions were not great that someone would come out and swim with me into the shore. But when I arrived at North Steyne beach it was almost completely flat and I had an easy swim into the beach and I was met by my wife and 1 year old daughter at North Steyne beach. There was also a film company doing filming for a T.V programme and they asked for me to go back and do a re enactment of me finishing and I was happy to do so.