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Mar 30, 2007

"No one knows your capability as well as you do. No one knows how big you can dream and no one knows how far you can go. You, like water, can seek and reach your own level." --Lynne Cox

The Swimmer And The Lost Whale

Lynne Cox is a famed open water swimmer and author of the best-selling book "Swimming to Antarctica" -- a chronicle of her swims across the Bering Strait, the English Channel and one mile to the shores of Antarctica. Her new book, "Grayson", is the remarkable story of her experience, at age 17, swimming with a lost baby gray whale off the coast of California. "I think it made me realize the things that are impossible really aren't. I mean think about it ... how do you find a mother whale in the Pacific Ocean? [...] Realizing I could do something like that made me understand in life when things look really big, if you just take it in small steps -- or small strokes -- you get really close to achieving what you want to do," says Lynne. In this article she shares more thoughts on that amazing experience and how it inspired her later ground-breaking achievements.