Elaine Hopley on our Upstream Battle week of action
A blog post by Elaine Hopley
Elaine Hopley
Posted 10/10/2019
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Our Upstream Battle ambassador, ocean rower Elaine Hopely, recorded her thoughts following our Upstream Battle week of action.