Hi there
Those on the forum will know my dad is in residential care with advanced dementia. On Friday (and well into the early hours of Saturaday) I swam from Dover, England to Wissant, France, with my relay team. An English channel relay team takes an hour each, in rotation, with a pilot boat alongside which guides you to your destination. We had five 'lady swimmers' as the official form said and it took us 17.03 hours so we swam 3 or 4 hours each.
I was horribly seasick so was unable to eat or drink during the attempt, and we swam through sunshine and pitch darkness with the fish and jellyfish and a seasnake... and saw dolphins at one point!
We are raising money for four charities and I picked the Alzheimer's Society. am delighted we've already raised over £4k so that's £1k at least to the society!
More info and pictures etc here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/refusetosink#start
Those on the forum will know my dad is in residential care with advanced dementia. On Friday (and well into the early hours of Saturaday) I swam from Dover, England to Wissant, France, with my relay team. An English channel relay team takes an hour each, in rotation, with a pilot boat alongside which guides you to your destination. We had five 'lady swimmers' as the official form said and it took us 17.03 hours so we swam 3 or 4 hours each.
I was horribly seasick so was unable to eat or drink during the attempt, and we swam through sunshine and pitch darkness with the fish and jellyfish and a seasnake... and saw dolphins at one point!
We are raising money for four charities and I picked the Alzheimer's Society. am delighted we've already raised over £4k so that's £1k at least to the society!
More info and pictures etc here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/refusetosink#start