One ocean, two very courageous women

 Just as one very brave woman nears the end of an amazing non-stop voyage around the world, another extraordinary lady who possessed astonishing

courage and determination enters the news.

 Jeanne’s epic journey is down on the earth’s watery surface.

 Amazing Amelia Earhart’s earned her reputation up in the air, of course, flying enormous distances back in the relatively early days of aircraft.

 Like Jeanne, she also made her amazing journeys alone.

 Alive and well

Jeanne, I’m very pleased to report is alive and well and on track, sailing downwind at the moment, for her British Columbia homeport of Victoria.

 Jeanne is 71, but Amelia Earhart, who won fame when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, was 39 when she vanished on her round-the-world flying attempt.

 She disappeared in July,1937, over the Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island from, Papua New Guinea, in waters which Jeanne sailed over recently.

 This week, we learned that an expedition headed by another legend, Robert Ballard, who found the wreck of the Titanic, has set off for Nikumaroro, a tiny atoll in the Pacific, seeking to find her plane and possibly her remains.

 Almost a Sunday sail

 Happily, Jeanne is alive and well and now seemingly spared life-threatening scares and her latest report sounds as if she enjoying almost a Sunday outing...

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