Pennock Island challenge

This swim was held on 12th of August a 13 km swim around Pennock Island in Ketchikan in Alaska. It would be an ante clock wise swim around Pennock Island. It would be a tidal swim where would have a current with us for the first 3 hours of the swim and then the tide would change. It was a lovely weather day with 16 degrees Celsius water temperature and a sunny 22 degrees Celsius day. I didn’t in the end have to wear a wetsuit as it was not that too cold in the water. There was a wind that was coming from the top of the Island and therefore my aim was to try and swim as well as I could do in the second quadrant of the swim when I was up against the wind. When I got to the top of the Island I knew that I would have the wind behind me and I could now use the wind to my benefit. But at the three quarter mark the tide changed and I knew that the swim would get harder from now on, but at 3 hours and 40 minutes I touched the boat which was our starting and finishing mark and I had completed the Pennock Island swim. This swim was a Annual swim but it has now stopped being done, it also served as a Awareness and fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association. I along with another swimmer went and did a Radio interview prior to the swim to talk about the upcoming swim and the importance of the American Diabetes Association.