Hi Guys,

I'm just about to fall asleep and I can't take this idea out of my head.
A couple of weeks ago I lost my mum after a short and aggressive battle against Cancer.
I promised myself at the start of her treatment that if she recovers I was going to challenge myself and cross the bay from Sorreento-Port Melbourne.

Unfortunaly God said otherwise and she could not recover. She was the stronger woman I've ever met and in her memory I've decided to take the challenge any way for those who still battling and for those who are gone.

I don't know when exactly yet. I believe sometime early Jan. I've done Mordialloc-PM, I want to think this is about double the distance if not a bit more. Good endurance challenge.

If there are more people interested we can organize something more formal and perhaps get media involved as well as some sponsors.

So, if you are interested let me know...

Cheers

Cesar

From Herald Sun
FOUR kite surfers were lucky to survive after their jet ski broke down in Port Phillip Bay.

The men were kite surfing about 7.5km from Sorrento when the jet ski they were relying on to tow them to shore faltered on Saturday.

The alarm was raised when one of the men phoned for help.

Water police and the Southern Peninsula Rescue and Coastguard pulled the four from the water after dark.

The first man, stranded on the jet ski, was rescued at about 10pm.

Police on jet skis eventually reached the other kite surfers, who were stuck on Mud Island, at about 1am.

"The conditions that night were horrendous," Leading Senior Constable Jay McDonald.

"It was dark and stormy with squalls of up to 40 knots and rain.

"The jet skier was adrift in the middle of a busy shipping channel and if he hadn't had his iPhone on him he would not have been able to raise the alarm."

What really went on out there?