Posted by:
Dave the Atheist
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Date: August 16, 2019 09:27AM
"This time last summer, Naomi Harris was scared for her life — over and over and over again.
There's the story of how she landed in hospital with a leg infection, which was a nasty prologue to a whole other misadventure on the French River. (She was bucked into the rapids, slicing her shin on the rocks.) Before that, she'd survived the Ottawa and Mattawa Rivers, plus the muddy, 11 km slog of the LaVase Portages. Then came a crossing at Lake Superior, where she paddled way out into the greatest of the Great Lakes ... just as the weather turned murderous. She and her guide survived. Barely. Same goes for the the squall that rocked her campsite soon after — an episode that nearly drowned her on dry land.
But Harris made it, completing a 70-day canoe journey from Lachine, Que., to Thunder Bay, Ont. And she did it all in a damned floor-length dress."
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/she-canoed-to-thunder-bay-in-a-big-victorian-dress-and-the-trip-s-not-over-yet-1.5246519