An eight-year quest to cross all five bodies of water aims to bring awareness to the importance of the world’s largest freshwater lakes and has raised more than $25,000
Before today, Mr. Morris and his friends had paddled all the Great Lakes except Ontario to raise awareness about the important freshwater resource and its ecosystems.Mr. Lorenz, Mr. Guy and Mr. Morris celebrate in Michigan after crossing Lake Superior in 2018.He and Jeff Guy, a 37-year-old financial adviser, had both recently taken up paddle boarding and were at a party a decade ago in their hometown of Traverse City, Mich., when they wondered if they could cross Lake Michigan.
The paddlers lay a wreath in 2018 over the wreck of SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a U.S. freighter that sank in 1975.The trio had planned to tackle Lake Ontario in 2020 – which would make them the first to ever cross all five Great Lakes on paddle boards – but were delayed by theIn the meantime, their project had caught the attention of Derek Niles, president of Orange Force Marine, a marine services company in Port Stanley, Ont., who volunteered to assist on their Lake Ontario crossing.
Whereas swimmers typically opt for Great Lake crossings in late August, when the water is at its warmest, a June date was probably ideal for paddle boarders, Mr. Niles said, because the weather is more predictable.
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