Palm beach to Manly beach

I tried to attempt to do this swim in July 2001 but on the day before my planned swim there was 7 to 8 metre swells and the team decided that we would not go ahead with the swim the next day. As I was doing this swim for the Rainbow Club of Australia ( The Rainbow Club of Australia provides 1 on 1 swimming tuition for disabeld children), I was very disappointed that I had not been able to do this swim and I thought I had let down a lot of people and the disabled children. Therefore we planned to do the same swim later in the year on the 18th of November 2001. Through the assistance of my Dad I had been able to organise the then Governor of NSW to come down and meet me at the end of my swim at Manly beach in front of the North Steyne beach clubhouse at approximately 3.45pm. This swim is 26kms long and I thought that it would roughly would take me 10 hours and as I would be starting at 6am then that would nicely combine well to finish close to 3.45pm with the Governor in attendance. But on the morning of the swim I didnt factor in a lovely 20km wind behind me and this would continue with me for the whole of the day and I arrived at North Steyne beach at 1.20pm and not 3.45pm. As we had arrived very early, we decided that we would do a re-enactment of the finish and so my brother and I walked up to the end of Queenscliffe beach and swam down to North Steyne beach and we arrived right on time at 3.45pm and the Governor of NSW met us at the finish of the swim. I dont believe that we really fooled anyone that I had arrived on timefrom the original swim. After the swim I was asked to be the Ambassador of the Rainbow Club and I accepted this role and I have been the Ambassador of the Rainbow Club since 2001. Since 2009 and including 2009 the Rainbow Club of Australia has held a Malabar Magic ocean swim at Malabar beach and since the passing of Murray Rose who was the Patron of the Rainbow club for a long time, the annual Ocean swim is now called the Murray Rose Malabar Magic ocean swim.