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Ataturk watching over us
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Annie and Des
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Tadpoles
Post Hellespont with Silke Frei
Hellespont
loved the orange hats and slippers
Silke and Jenny
Hellespont
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Evening Prior
View from the Asian side painted from a photo taken at a cafe the night before the crossing.
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Hellespont
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Hellespont
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Hellespont
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Hellespont
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Clear waters for the Hellespont
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Turkish Hellespont swimmers
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Swimmers head onto a boat for the start of the race
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Swimmers pour into the Hellespont
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Swimmers crawl out into the Hellespont
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Close up swimmer in the famous Turkish strait
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Swimmers at the Hellespont start
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Wild Swimming Brothers, Jack and Calum, join swimmers in the Hellespont
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Aerial drone view of Hellespont swimmers
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SwimTrek founder, Simon Murie, with the Hellespont race winners
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Swimmers make their entrance!
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Ready for the Hellespont crossing
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