This year’s planning has been a bit of a whirlwind. We have picked some great tides between June 5 and June 8- there’s little difference between high and low which means slower moving water from that perspective. I originally thought the deciding factor would be the air temperature and rain, as the water is sitting at…

One of the things I love about open water swimming is all of the stories I run though in my head, and my thoughts around how to share them. I encounter so many interesting people and see so many beautiful things, not just when I am at the site of my swim, but also along…

Wow, what an incredible week. First, huge thank you to my partner Ray and my good friend Kevin for making this past week possible. No girl should train alone in the cool waters of Great Bear.  It is super nice that Kevin hosts me at Drifter’s Cove when I swim on the central coast and makes sure I…

I decided to give myself a good kick-start to cold water training for my swim to Namu (part 2) and attempt at a double crossing of Juan de Fuca Strait summer of 2018.  Early November 2017 I headed up to Heiltsuk waters just outside of Bella Bella in the Great Bear Rainforest for a week or repeated dips in…

As with day one I think we started about an hour late. The crew was pretty beat up from the previous day. Someone was meant to put coffee on for 7am but it never happened. I think I started to hear people milling around about 8am. The nice thing was that I would be leaving…

Each year hundreds of humpbacks travel the waters of the Inside Passage through the Great Bear Rainforest and Heiltsuk territory. I knew this before I began my journey to Namu but I will be the first to admit, I didn’t really understand the magnitude of what lay ahead. Before I share what happened I day…

Pre-swim activity It’s day four in our journey to Namu and day 1 of the swim. I woke up at about 6:30 an lay in bed thinking about what lay ahead. I like laying quietly in the morning and since I had about an hour before I had to get up I used the time to mentally…

Wow! We made it. It was quite a long day yesterday but I am here on Denny Island with my crew. We had a bit of a sleep in this morning but once finally up the crew enjoyed a fabulous breakfast. MJ is not only a spectacular swim manager, but also an amazing chef. After…

Journey to Namu is currently schedulde to begin Tuesday, June 21 at approximately 10:00 AM. You can SPOT track me during the swim here. If you would like to follow me on Facebook you can do so here.

Some stories are best told with pictures. Here’s what happened on our first day of the journey – from Victoria to Drifter’s Cove on Denny Island. 6:00 AM departure from Victoria, British Columbia with Ray, my partner and main kayaker. 7:00 AM picked up Matt, one of my pilots, in Lake Cowichan 8:30 picked up…