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Northumberland Straight Crossings

Earlier this month Jen Alexander attempted to swim from PEI to New Brunswick to Nova Scotia. I followed her progress via live GPS tracking at the time but just now decided to make a blog entry when I ran across a CBC article. Jen made it from PEI to NB but was pulled out of the water before making it to NS. I think congratulations are still in order!

Jen's got her own blog at http://marathonswimmer.livejournal.com/. There were several articles in the press and she provides a list of press articles in her blog.

There are more jellyfish in the Northumberland Straight this year than I can ever remember, Jen includes some jellyfish memories in her memories from her crossing. Just an hour ago I gave up on getting a swim in today because the jellyfish were just too thick to put up with. I really hope they'll stay out of the bay for the Tracadie open water swim tomorrow.

According to CBC radio Kristen Roe is attempting a double crossing today. She's got a web site at www.kristinroe.com.

Posted at 05:47PM Jul 26, 2008 by Lindsay in Challenge Swims  |  Comments[0]