Cheers to Woollahra Council for recognising the impact of community-minded people. I am honored by their support. I haven’t given up on finishing the swim, or raising money for charity. Thanks to all those who have contributed to my journey!
In the wake of disastrous flooding across Queensland, I will be raising money for relief efforts. This fund raising is in addition to the charities already benefiting from my swim. My thoughts are with the communities that are now also being battered by Cyclone Yasi.
The Gold Company has promised $100 dollars per Bondi Beach Lap, and if you want to add to this fundraising effort please either contact me or visit my fundraising page at myCause.com.au
Happy new year everyone! Thanks to all those who have donated, pledged or spread the word, and thanks to WordPress.com for their great blog hosting in 2010.
Here are some stats for 2010:
Crunchy numbers
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,000 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 3 times
In 2010, there were 6 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 23 pictures uploaded. That’s about 2 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was October 31st with 94 views. The most popular post that day was Challenge.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com and clicks from links in private emails. That means most visitors were led here socially.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for gary meyers channel swim, gary meyers swim, gary swims the channel, gary meyers 2010, and gary meyers swims the channel.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Challenge October 2010
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Featured in the Australian Jewish News July 2010
Featured on the King David Schools Foundation September 2010
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Newsletter no.1 July 2010
Mentioned in the Mayor’s Message November 2010
Cheers to the Make A Difference Foundation for their encouragement, in featuring me on their front page. If you haven’t already, please consider making a donation using the link on the right of this page.
Download the new poster (1.3mb)
Father of two and professional architect, Gary has set himself the arduous but exciting challenge of swimming the English channel next year. Gary, who describes himself as “not a swimmer”, has set himself the task of swimming the “Everest of swims”, precisely because of the challenge it affords – “I think only 500 odd people have ever made the solo swim”. He also wants underprivileged children to benefit from his swim, and pledges made for his swim will be donated to charities that help children. At present he is swimming a mile per day at the Bondi Icebergs in Sydney Australia, and plans to increase this to swim across Bondi Bay 10 times, and then increase the distance as required.
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