@allezsports.bsky.socialIn California, the beach is free. That isn't an accident. 🌊
Catherine Breed went to New Jersey last summer and found out you have to pay to get on the sand. The California Coastal Commission is the reason California is different.
Watch now: youtu.be/1NnrOzBRu-4
@allezsports.bsky.socialShe's swum 450 miles to get here. 🌊
San Francisco is home for Catherine Breed. She also stopped at the Marine Mammal Center, the world's largest marine mammal hospital.
@allezsports.bsky.socialThey've lived on this sailboat for four months. 🌊
Catalyst is home for the Swim California crew while Catherine Breed swims 900 miles down the coast.
@thecacoast.bsky.social“You cannot swim up and down the California coast without having a bird’s eye view of what 50 years of careful coastal management has done.”
#swimcalifornia #thankyoucoastalact #californiacoastalcommission
@allezsports.bsky.socialThe worst beach in California isn't the worst beach in California anymore. 🏄♀️
Cowell Beach topped the state's dirtiest list for years. Save The Waves fixed it. One of the main culprits turned out to be pigeons. 🐦
@allezsports.bsky.socialSwim California is going LIVE in 10 minutes!
Catherine is over 700 miles into her swim of the ENTIRE California coastline.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/uQK8TSv...
@allezsports.bsky.socialTurns out the 900-mile swimmer also surfs big waves. 🌊
Santa Cruz is where Catherine Breed started. The water at Cowell Beach used to be the dirtiest in California. Not anymore.
@allezsports.bsky.socialEvery rescue at the world's largest marine mammal hospital starts with a phone call. 🐋
Katie D'Innocenzo from the Marine Mammal Center on how it works. Catherine Breed stopped there 450 miles into Swim California.
@allezsports.bsky.social"I had goosebumps. And I'm not even swimming it." 🌊
Heather is on the crew for Swim California. 900 miles of open water, and only one person is in it. But nobody does it alone.
@allezsports.bsky.social"That might be a non-starter." 🌊
Catherine Breed is rounding Point Conception into protected water. Next weekend, a tropical system called Polo could send swell from exactly the direction she's swimming.
@allezsports.bsky.socialOn the surface, it looks dead. It's actually an aquarium. 🌊
Catherine Breed is swimming 900 miles down the California coast. Right now, Bodega Bay, inside the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
@allezsports.bsky.social6,000 calories a day. 🌊
High protein, lower carbs. Meals cooked in the Bay Area, frozen, shipped out on dry ice. Salmon chili. Korean barbecue. Burrito bowls.
Full episode tomorrow.
@allezsports.bsky.socialEverything changes at Point Conception. 🌊
Once Catherine gets around the point, the Channel Islands provide protection and sea state stops being the problem. Then it's local winds, and water that may get too warm.