Good news stories from the past seven days
A 50-year-old massage therapist from Sydney has become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific. Michelle Lee set out from Mexico in August last year, and completed her 8,700-mile journey in 237 days, reaching North Queensland last week. She rowed a 25ft-long carbon fibre craft, and encountered five hurricanes, four cyclones and many sharks, including one that leapt onto the boat and thrashed around on the deck. To pass the time when she wasn’t rowing, she listened to audiobooks and played the ukulele. It was a “privilege”, Lee said, to experience “Mother Nature in all her runway-ready, take-me-as-I-am, natural beauty”.
