Pics of places you have swum

[Wildswimmer]

These are my summer "training pools", top pic the River Weaver in Frodsham, Cheshire. A bit industrial to starboard, but miles of open countryside to port. An unusually warm river which is regularly tested for water quality.

The second pic is of Hatchmere Lake in Delamere Forest, Cheshire. This is the lake over which was fought the campaign that led to the formation of the River and Lake Swimming Association.

[OpenNewbie]

Cool pics people.

Ive not got any of my usual traning spot, but i do have a couple of the forth that i sawm Oh - note how rather wasted i look in the second one! I have to say tho, its one of those pics where you look much worse than you feel - i was feeling amazing

[Spidey]

Originally Posted by Steve

Sydney Harbour - I'm just inside the buoy if you look very, very closely

Buoy - looks like a line up to go on the banana boat to me!

[Leprechaun]

Originally Posted by OpenNewbie

Cool pics people.

Ive not got any of my usual traning spot, but i do have a couple of the forth that i sawm Oh - note how rather wasted i look in the second one! I have to say tho, its one of those pics where you look much worse than you feel - i was feeling amazing

I think I would look and feel pretty wasted if I had had to carry that fire extinguisher (in your second picture?) round with me! The spectators would not make you feel warm, looking at them!

[OpenNewbie]

Originally Posted by Leprechaun

I think I would look and feel pretty wasted if I had had to carry that fire extinguisher (in your second picture?) round with me! The spectators would not make you feel warm, looking at them!

lol, what can i say, i enjoy the challange! I dont think it was the warmest day, was raning all morning and when we started you could not see the other side! Anyway, here are a couple of pics i found on the net of my swimming grounds.

P.S. I have no idea who the randoms are!

[Brick]

I'm seriously jealous. Though while when I was young my family swum in "wild water" all the time, it's been decades since I have. When my swimming improves I'm hoping to do it again. Here are some places I have swum.

Kare Kare beach. And lots of other places on the west coast of Auckland, New Zealand.



Fitzroy beach


Lake Pupuke. I'm told that there are "water quality issues" these days. I wonder if the water is any different or if people's perceptions have changed. Certainly I remember having to avoid the floating mats of algae and the like. This is a volcanic crater lake.



Lots of small pools, particularly at the bases of waterfalls in the Waitakere ranges. None that I remember were quite this big, but I'm unlikely to find pictures.



Waikato River, further upstream where it's smaller than this.



Hot water beach. In a thermal area, so if you dig a big hole in the sand, it fills with water hot enough to make a warm salt water bath.

[nickcooney]

The Cork Masters swimming club organise a full season of shenanigans down in Kinsale.

This shot taken as we did reconnaisance prior to swim, which didn't go round the island due to fairly hairy conditions, but a great - and slightly hairy - swim down the estuary nontheless.

Does anybody know about anymore UK events this year?

Great to find this forum!

[GettingFaster]

Great pic, Nick, and many warm welcomes. You'll find lots of like-minded (for that read stark, staring bonkers) people on here.

[Bully]

It Wasn't So Bad Until I Weee'd In The Pool

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[Wildswimmer]

CRASH!!!!!!......another thread falls into the gutter

By the way, Bully, if it's that colour and quantity I'd suggest a rather urgent visit to your GP (vet?) may be in order.

On a more serious note, isn't it a scandal we can't swim anymore in Bath's Roman baths? Yet another victory for the anti-swimming Health and Safety Gestapo.

Wildswimmer Pete

[Brick]

Originally Posted by Wildswimmer

On a more serious note, isn't it a scandal we can't swim anymore in Bath's Roman baths? Yet another victory for the anti-swimming Health and Safety Gestapo.

What's the story behind this one?

[Wildswimmer]

My impression of what happened:

Swimming took place regularly in the Roman Bath until the mid Seventies, when it was stopped on the grounds of some organism or other being found in the water. An organism that had no doubt been present during the centuries the bath had been in existence without causing any large scale epidemic of something nasty.

I don't believe a word of it. I suspect that some suit-collar-and-tie wearing tinpot little bureaucratic dictator intended to stop all that naked (OK swimsuit clad) cavorting in the pool, and as is usual, closed it to swimming on (spurious) "Health and Safety" grounds - always a good excuse to stop anything. Because of course, if there was a risk to health, all they needed to do was chlorinate the water. The offending organism was some sort of amoeba, not chlorine-resistant cryptosporidium. Anyway, I don't make a habit of drinking the water I'm swimming in - and after reading the "peeing in the pool" thread I'm even less convinced that "normal" public swimming pools are all that clean.

No, I believe some little Hitler wanted swimming in the Roman Bath stopped, on whatever pretext he could find.

Any resident of Bath able to shed any more light on the subject?

Note to City of Bath Council: If you opened the Roman Bath for swimming I'd be down there like a shot spending my money. As no doubt would many other water-lovers. I'm not interested in visiting that sad glass-and-plastic replacement that's not even open yet, despite being years overtime and millions overbudget.

What would I do with all the Health and Safety industry? Invite them all to a huge H&S conference at RoSPA headquarters, then nuke the place.

The world would be a much happier place without them. Sad little people who can't stand seeing others take part in activities they themselves don't have the bottle to take part in. Why am I so bitter? Because RoSPA is the main driving force behind official attempts to stamp out open water swimming in England and Wales. They have little or no influence in Scotland thanks to Scots law's "Right to Swim".

Wildswimmer Pete

[Wildswimmer]

This was taken today in the Dee estuary at Thurstaston, Wirral. It does look rather Autumnal but despite it being mid-October, water temp was a somewhat surprising 15.9C (60F). Pic and temp reading taken at slack high water, so the estuary was full of Irish Sea water from Liverpool Bay.

The strange light is partly down to the weather conditions, and partly due to my dive camera's exposure being a little confused by direct sunlight - it is designed more for use underwater. The lens window was also spattered with water droplets, mud and salt.

It may look cold but it wasn't. I was fully immersed in just my swimming trunks. The opposite coast is North Wales, across five miles of deep, cold grey water. Luvvverly!!!!!

[ruthcp]

Ok, you've spurred me on Wildswimmer - here are a couple more!

First is a place called Maitencillo (Chile), the water here gets the Humboldt Current, and is therefore SO cold your feet go numb after only a few minutes!!
Second is in the Docklands (Blackwall Basin), where I actually fell in while boating so didn't really mean to 'swim' (!!)

[OpenNewbie]

hehe, nice pics

I jumed in the sea today, first time ive properly swam in the sea for a long time. Was at YellowCraig beach, pic attached. I need to get a digital camera so i dont have to keep attaching random pics from the net.

Waves were rather big today, felt amazing as they go over you!! Anyway, as it was rather nippy was only in for 20mins or so, with a run inbetween to warm up.