SHARK BAIT SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA, WITH TONY FORBES AND COL RITCHIE

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Tony Forbes and Col Ritchie are regulars at the annual Pier to Pub ocean swim in Lorne, Victoria. This can be a fierce race, when swimming can be a contact sport. Notwithstanding this, this fearsome duo amount nearly a century and a half of life experience between them, and swimming enough Pier to Pubs leads to the honour of receiving a shark bait award, two or more if you live long enough and/or you don’t get taken by a shark. Tony and Col take it seriously enough to train regularly in their local pool. Which is where I join them, one Australian spring morning.