Swims Across The Lake
As of 2012, nearly 50 people have successfully swum across the lake. The first person who accomplished the feat was Marilyn Bell, who did it in 1954 at the age of 16. Toronto's Marilyn Bell Park is named in her honor. The park opened in 1984, and is located just to the east of the spot where Bell completed her swim.
In 1974, Diana Nyad became the first person who swam across the lake against the current (from north to south).
On August 19, 2012, 14-year-old Annaleise Carr became the youngest person to swim across the lake. She completed the 52-kilometre (32-mile) crossing from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Marilyn Bell Park in just under 27 hours.
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Famous quotes containing the words swims and/or lake:
“He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)