She Just Kept Swimming . . .

One morning, as author Lynne Cox was heading in from her daily swim in the southern California surf, she was alerted that a baby gray whale was swimming along with her. Had she swam to shore, the whale would have followed her and been beached. So she kept going, swimming much farther out in hopes to reconnect the baby, "Grayson", with his mother. She continued her swim for hours beyond the norm, while onlookers and locals tried to rally help. The story is heartwarming, and mom and baby do eventually reunite. Lynne's recollection of the events of the day are astounding, as is her obvious knowledge of ocean life she was pressed to notice on such an unusual day, with an unusual swim, with a most unexpected buddy. There's a lot of detail at the beginning of the book which was honestly a little excessive for me, but it all came together when the whale appeared. This is a feel-good book for those days when you just need something nice to think about. And maybe she'll inspire you, on an unusual day of your own, to just keep swimming, too.