A great swim by Natasha Dyer who successfully swam around South Africa's Robben Island last week. And Natasha writes "To round off a glorious time in Cape Town I'm thrilled to say I just completed an 11.3km swim around Robben Island!
My first swim over 10km in open water. It took four hours and eight minutes, slow but my stroke was steady. The sun was shining, and the water was almost completely flat. The temperatures started at 13.5 C but then rose to 14.9 and even 16 at the end.
We even saw a huge pod of swimming dolphins up close.
A huge huge thank you to my incredible team and dear friends the best boatman and lifeguard Derrick Frazer, swimming partner and newly wed Zani Müller who swam half of it with me and another swimming champ Emma Jane Alsop who met us on the beach.
Epic day. And for the record, Natasha is one of just nine women to have successfully swam a lap of Robben Island.
