Impressive and Kooky

I grew up on the water but when I'm in it I prefer to stay within eyesight of the shore.

This is another one of those things that I could never ever dream of doing and while I admire her feat I gotta think there must be a tiny screw just a little bit loose.

From the Huffington Post...

Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.

Reaching a beach in Trinidad, she became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean.

The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast on Jan. 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet (9 meters) and strong winds.

A friend of Figge who kept in touch with her via satellite phone, said she had originally planned to swim the Bahamas, but inclement weather forced her to veer 1,000 miles (1,610 kms) off course to Trinidad, where she arrived on Feb. 5.