Courtesy of Winston Crooke, Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim Race. Winston Crooke, event organizer of the Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim Race, explains the origin of the name Nevis. "The island was named Oualie ("Land of Beautiful Waters") by the Carib Indians and Dulcina ("Sweet Island") by the early British settlers. The name, Nevis, is
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2015 StarMile2.5 Nevis-St. Kitts Cross-Channel Swim on April 5th will serve the 13th annual Bente Weber Memorial Swim in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The 4 km channel swim across the Narrows offers both a race and a challenge to open water swim enthusists and adventurers. It was a
Photos courtesy of SwimTrek. Article by WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. SwimTrek will showcase their open water swimming tours at the Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show this weekend. "It's our first time exhibiting in the United States. Kate and Gary Emich will be at the SwimTrek booth look forward to seeing swimmers from all over the world," says
Winston Crooke, President of the St. Kitts and Nevis Triathlon, is organizing the StarMile2.5 Nevis-St. Kitts Cross-Channel Swim, a 2.5-mile (4 km) swim held on March 30th from between Oualie Beach on Nevis to Cockleshell Bay on St Kitts. It is also called the Bente Weber Memorial Swim. Crooke explains who the wonderful, selfless person Bente was.
Winston Crooke, President of the St. Kitts and Nevis Triathlon, is standing at the ready in Nevis. Nevis is part of a federation with St. Kitts in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Nevis, the tiny island with plenty of beautiful open water swimming locations, is the start of the 2.5-mile (4km) swim. from Oualie Beach on Nevis to Cockleshell Bay
The Bente Weber Memorial Swim (or the StarMile 2.5 Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim) is a 4.2-kilometer (2.5-mile) channel swim across the "Narrows". It also known as the Bente Weber Memorial Cross-channel Swim. Swimming in the Narrows between the two islands of the smallest nation in the Americas in both area and population is a great inter-island
