Being Green - 7 April 2017

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Do One Thing - D –O-- T – Dot. That’s the challenge thrown out from the Cape-to-Rio rowing pair of Braam Malherbe and Wayne Robertson. Do One Thing for the environment. Well, they’re doing one huge thing by rowing across the South Atlantic in their 6.8 metre craft, the Mhondoro, that’s Shona for Young Lion.
So how’re they doing? You can check it out on the DOT website, as I am now. ( ) Well, they are doing great on that lonely voyage in the immensity of the ocean. You can read about the privations, the challenges, physical and psychological – beyond anything we can imagine I’m sure.
7 Apr 2017 English South Africa Health & Fitness

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