training. A Long Swim An Australian equivalent to swimming the English Channel has been accomplished by Ted Taylor, a young Englishman now working in the Port Fairy, Victoria, district. Surfing on the coast near Yambuk, Taylor calmly set out with the tide, unattended and unannounced, for Julia Percy Island, whose inhospitable coast lies six miles off shore in the Southern Ocean. He managed to land on a shelving rock, and when the tide turned struck out for the mainland, which he regained nine hours after his starting-time. This lone swim on a storm-swept coast, the water being little above winter temperature, should rank .high among Australian achievements of the kind. Taylor intends repeating it to settle disputes, if any. _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 197, 9 November 1927, Page 13
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