Who invented the ‘Aussie Crawl’?

Almost anyone who likes to swim will know what the ‘Aussie Crawl’ – there is even a well-known Australian rock band named after the stroke – but what many people don’t know is that the stroke was actually created in the Solomon Islands more than 100 years ago by a local ‘fela’ who didn’t have time to wait for an inter-island ferry and decided swimming would be the fastest way to go.  It’s a great yarn made even greater by award-winning Aussie travel writer and dedicated goggle-wearer, the incredible floating Christine Retschlag who took up our challenge to recreate the swim, dodging the odd saltwater croc along the way and you can read it here: https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2023/05/who-invented-the-aussie-crawl/