Peach-fuelled Vancouver swimmer Jessi Harewicz braving Georgia Strait

Vancouver swimmer Jessi Harewiczis getting into a flowas she works towards crossing the Georgia Strait, fuelled by canned peaches and pure will.

"She's gotten into a rhythm now," said friend and crew-member Emily Van Gulik after 33-year-oldHarewiczhad been swimming for two hours.

Van Gulik is helping feed Harewiczsugary energy boosters, fruit or small hunks of peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

• Vancouver swimmer JessiHarewicz attempts Georgia Strait crossing

"She'll kind of scarf down whatever we've got for her kind of floating along," said Van Gulik who is also providing updates onHarewicz's Facebookpage.

The swimmer's fathersaid, sofar, he doesn't believe thechilly conditions have affected his daughter in a major way,despite the fact sheis not wearing a wetsuit.

"When she comes up for the feeds, if I don't get it right, I get an earful!" saidRichard Harewicz,who often paddles beside his daughter."That is how I can tell."

Harewicz isattemptingto become the third woman toever to swim across the Georgia Straitaccording to the B.C. Masters Swimming Association.

Her efforts come asthe sport of open water swimming gainspopularity withcold, dark and unpredictable conditions a selling point.