We did it!!! 16hrs 51mins 29/6/2024. Such a fantastic experience. Enjoyed it so much. Pushed me out of my comfort zone and had to dig deep a couple of times, but so worth it!

Loads of thank you’s :

- all of you for your supporting messages and your amazing donations. Still in awe of you all!

- Christine our amazing coach. She gently steered us in the right direction with our training, believed in us all 100%

- the pilots on the boat (Gallivant) who were so knowledgeable and really directed us so well. Mike, Mike and Dan.

- Tony our observer who was just the loveliest kindest man. Knowing what to say and sending us great hand signals in the sea

- and finally, the Blue Footed Boobies, who started out as strangers but have now become friends. The loveliest bunch of women, strong, supportive and determined. So grateful to have done this with them!!

27/6/2024 - OMG we had “The Call” and we start our swim at 3am on Saturday!!

Excited, nervous and a million emotions in between! It’s actually happening!

If you’d like to track our progress, follow #bluefootedboobies2024 on instagram.

Our boat is called “Gallivant” and we start off in Dover.

This is the boat and pilot who is taking us :

https://cspf.co.uk/tracking/235023353#

wow wow wow, thank you so much for your generosity and support 🙏

Yet another crazy challenge, this time a channel swim relay with 5 other amazing women!

We are funding the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project because we swim in the sea off Sussex every week.

Kelp was once abundant in Sussex.

In the late 1970s the kelp beds between Selsey and Shoreham-by-Sea were abundant, and teemed with life including important commercial species such as European Sea Bass, Black Sea Bream, European Lobster and Common Cuttlefish. But by the end of the century, 96% of the kelp had disappeared, along with the marine life it supported.

Among the factors that caused the kelp to disappear were the great storm of 1987 and intensive fishing activity in the area using heavy trawl nets (trawling) which, when dragged along the seafloor can destroy seabed habitats. ​

A ban on trawling has made a big difference but funding will help the project even more!

We are the Blue Footed Boobies :- Miranda (boss booby), Jo (bouncy booby), Julia (baby booby), Sarah (bovvered booby), Gemma.(bantz booby) and Cathy (bling booby) and none of us have done anything like this before and are frankly a bit petrified.... but ably coached.by Christine we've been training for over 6 months and are getting stronger by the day.