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Bass Strait |
![]() Tammy van Wisse found her challenge in Bass Strait. When courageous Tammy came ashore at Apollo Bay, after spending more than 17 hours slogging wearily for 100km, she became the first person to swim the strait from King Island to Victoria. This terrible stretch of water with its fickle weather, violent westerly winds and fierce currents has been Australia's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle for ![]() With this forbidding reputation, the strait is definitely not recommended for swimmers. But Tammy swam all night. As the sun went down the sea grew cold and chilled her bones. She suffered nausea caused by swallowing too much seawater. As she neared the Victorian coast, she battled a 2.5 metre swell. As 1000 people cheered her ashore at Apollo Bay, her brother John, with whom she once swam the English Channel, said: "Once she's done something, she wants to try something bigger." Because it is there. ![]() |