Michelle Lee, a 50-year-old massage therapist, reached the Queensland coast on Wednesday after leaving Mexico on 8 August
fter rowing alone across the Pacific Ocean, dodging five hurricanes and four cyclones and surviving a shark leaping into her boat, Michelle Lee was to end an epic 240-day journey at the tropical northFanfare, loved ones, a stack of pancakes and a hot shower were awaiting – not to mention her first footsteps on dry land since she paddled out of Ensenada, Mexico, on 8 August last year.
Michelle Lee in her specially built rowboat on an earlier voyage where she rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in 68 days.There, shortly before 10am and after paddling for about 14,000 kilometres, Lee landed her boat – the Australian Maid – making her the first woman to row solo and unassisted across the Pacific.“The last bit was a bit of a battle,” she told waiting press. “But it’s the story of my life: winds, currents, tides, everything against me, often I had all of them doing different things.
In her confinement, Lee learned “the art of patience”. She played a ukulele, made a pudding, cut herself a mullet and listened to audiobooks – her library ranging from self-help author Joe Dispenza to meditation guru Jose Silva and romance novelist Maddison Michaels.Not that she was ever totally alone out there on the Pacific. Lee was followed by two large sharks for weeks.
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