Downstream

like Lewis, he swam through
lots of jelly fish: ‘it felt like I
swam through them for an
entire day, and got quite a
few stings’, but then ‘across
from Southend’ he got stuck
in the mud. ‘It was
unexpected; we calculated the
tides wrong so the swim took
a lot longer than we thought.
The sun was setting, we were
nowhere near where we
needed to be, so we pulled up
to the shore to make a phone