The sun rises in the East and we show our swims in the order they were done during the day, starting in New Zealand and ending in Honolulu, but we start with a message from Yazan Al-Bawwab, the famous Palestinian swimmer.

Special thanks to everyone who sent us their videos and photos.

Yazan Al-Bawwab – Palestinian Olympic Swimmer joined us

See Yazan’s post from this year’s Olympics

New Zealand

While most of our swimmers were asleep, and Vancouver had yet to go to bed for the Swim the next day, supported in New Zealand were already heading for the beach.

Auckland New Zealand

Christchurch New Zealand

Aotearoa New Plymouth New Zealand

Malaysia

Putrajaya Malaysia

Palestine

Bethlehem Palestine

Gaza North Beach Palestine

See here for all that was happening at the Gaza Swimming Carnival.

Gaza South Beach Palestine

Silwan Jerusalem

We funded this trip from Silwan to Yaffa Beach

Around 15 children from Silwan, a neighbourhood in Jerusalem, packed their bags for the trip to the sea, for many their first time seeing the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Supported in Yaffa welcomed them off the bus and then took them on a tour of Yaffa before pizza and the beach.