FORT BRAGG, CA., 7/23/26 — An accomplished swimmer is making her way down the California Coast and her next stop will be Fort Bragg this weekend, her team announced.
Catherine Breed, an extreme endurance athlete, started a nonprofit last year called Sea Dreamers, dedicated to encouraging and supporting women in ocean activities like open-water swimming, surfing, ocean research and more, according to the nonprofit’s website.
In order to support her nonprofit, push conservation efforts and inspire women to get in the water, Breed is swimming along the entire California Coast this year. The project, Swim California, started July 1 near the Oregon-California border and will end in early November near San Diego.
At her stop in Fort Bragg this Sunday, Breed will join conservation experts at the Noyo Center Marine Field Station to talk about the dramatic decline of Northern California’s kelp forests and the restoration efforts going on to revive these ocean ecosystems.
“When I learned what had happened, I knew I wanted to come here, listen, and learn from the people working to bring them back,” Breed said.
Breed will be joined by featured speakers Sheila Semans, executive director for the Noyo Center for Marine Science, Tristin Anoush McHugh, associate director for The Nature Conservancy and Morgan Murphy-Cannella, director of Education for Reef Check California.
The talk will be at Noyo Center Marine Field Station, 32430 N. Harbor Drive, Fort Bragg, on Sunday at 4 p.m,