My eldest daughter Kara Schelhase, 14 years old, has just started doing her bronze stage of The Duke of Edinburgh Award and her physical part, which has to be done over a three-month period, was open water swimming. It really was a fabulous three months of fun doing all different open water activities. Sometimes we swam far, other times we found a rope swing or pontoon to jump off. Each river or lake brought on a different level of excitement and energy.
Heather Schelhase