We did it!!!

Very early (545am!) on the morning of 31 July, we swam across the Solent in aid of the Isle of Wight Samaritans. We were up in the dark at 430am & at Yarmouth harbour for our swim briefing (still in the dark!) at 515am.  We were ferried across to Hurst Castle on the mainland via RIBs - before we plunged into the water at 545am.

Thankfully, it was a lovely morning with little wind & calm seas.  The preceding days had been windy & grey so the weather was very kind to us.  We swam to Colwell Bay on the Isle of Wight, arriving 40 - 45 minutes later, for a much needed hot breakfast with our swimming comrades & families.

Thank you for all your support though it is not too late to sponsor us!  The Isle of Wight Samaritans desperately needs our help as the Solent Swim is the Samaritan's major fund raising event of the year.

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This was a real challenge for us - open water swimming across a busy shipping thoroughfare with strong currents!  But we made it  :-)

Sarah & Andrew