Well, as you will have gathered from the silence Wellington weather put paid to any crossing attempts during the set of tides last weekend.
Philip Rush told me he got one swimmer across a couple of days before the last set of tides but she was very quick (7hrs 8 minutes) and had the speed to overcome deteriorating weather towards the end of the swim.
The next set runs from approx 11th to15th March and I've got my fingers crossed.
In the absence of a Strait swim last weekend I did the State ChristChurch fundraiser swim at Milford on Saturday plus a return trip from Takapuna - 7.5km.
On Sunday I did 2 trips to cable buoy plus Takapuna to Castor Bay - approx 11km.
Tuesday was with the usual suspects at the Beach series and yesterday I did 6 trips to the Takapuna Cable Buoy. It was great to have company - Richard Rice for the first leg, Helen Adams for legs 2, 3 and 4 and Hamish for the last leg. Average speed by my estimate 3.2 kph.
Today is a rest day as is tomorrow (going fishing). Sunday I will do the ACM Bays Swim and probably a return trip to the start.
Next week I'll be winding down to the next set of tides.
Next posting will be mid next week
Cheers
Geoff
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