The Beauty Of Penny Palfrey’s Kaieiewaho Channel Swim Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The raw beauty of the Penny Palfrey’s Kaieiewaho Channel attempt, 115 km between the islands of Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii is…indescribable gorgeous. It was not the distance, it was not the waves, it was not the surface chop, it was […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After a remarkable solo attempt by modern-day adventurer Penny Palfrey, the 72-mile Kaieiewaho Channel remains one of marathon swimming’s most difficult feats. Penny was done in by a wall of Portuguese Man-o-War just before dusk on Saturday night, Hawaii time. Just after the 11-hour mark, Penny slammed into a