She found a job as an educational counselor and raised her four children there. One day, on a flight from one island to the next, Audrey became intrigued by the folded-up coastline of the island of Molokai. So, in 1962, she decided to tour the coast by swimming along it, towing an inflatable raft with supplies. She has since refined her mode of travel, and now uses an inflatable kayak because it is transportable, light enough for her to handle comfortably, and relatively inexpensive. Audrey has paddled thousands of miles in Hawaii, Alaska, Greece, Samoa, Austria, the Rio Grande, Scotland, and Maine - most of those miles by herself.
Outrigger travelers launch from the beach.
That's Arlene Burns in the middle.