The 2008 Fiji Swim Festival, held on the weekend of October 17th-19th, was a great success, with swimmers from all over the world taking part in the 5 events.

The action commenced on the Friday with a 'Breakfast with the Champions'. Multiple English Channel swimmer Anne Cleveland from the USA was joined by 2007 Australian 10km champion Kate Brookes-Peterson, her coach (and formidable swimmer himself) John Papuni, and current Australian 10km champion and Beijing 10km Olympian, Melissa Gorman.

On the Monday morning following the Fiji Ocean Swim, seven swimming adventurers left Plantation Island by speedboat to pick up the fast catamaran, the 'Yasawa Flyer', for a four hour journey through the magnificent Yasawa Island chain to our Swim Safari base at Oarsman's Bay Lodge.

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The lodge nestles in a wide sandy bay on the south west coast of Nacula Island, and by early afternoon we had covered our first 2km swim off Oarsman's beach, along a beautiful crescent shaped reef.