Today I conquered my fears and swam out to sea with my youngest son. Hurrah, yippee. It was amazing. :)
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Today I conquered my fears and swam out to sea with my youngest son. Hurrah, yippee. It was amazing. :)
Second triathlon I did in the 80s was a sea swim off Sunderland in May. First time I'd ever swam in open water......what you might term a short learning curb.
Sea swimming is fab.
Sea-swimming is to pool-swimming as fell is to road.
The sea was made for swimming in:cool:
the sea is full of semen. :p:p:p
sorry i meant seamen
Come again?
Any of these? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Stef F
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just being immatureQuote:
Originally Posted by Mud
Yikes no (well not that I saw!) I definitely need moral support to deal with those!!! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
But there were bigish rolling waves that crashed onto the beach. No messing - I dived straight into the first big wave that came my way and was in before Sam. :D
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The pic doesn't do it justice!
Looks great... where were you?
Swam a couple of weekends ago in Dorset..beautiful, and as I'm normally used to swimming in arctic Welsh water, the south coast water seemed to be the temperature of bath water!
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Originally Posted by TurboTom
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Originally Posted by Mud
Think young TT missed that one. Vindication, perhaps, that Tom is not yet ready for the full on Xmas on the Fells experience?;)Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboTom
:D I swam off a georgeous beach in Skye in July; it was just like the carribean in that the sea was crystal clear, stunningly aqua marine under a sunny sky with beautiful white sand below. The temperature was something else though and there were quite a few of those little see through (and harmless) jelly fish milling about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
Sounds lovely :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
It wasn't the jellies I was concerned about - although I wouldn't want to meet a huge stingy one such as we get down here from time to time! The weeds are much more scary; could get tangled up in those!!! :(
Seaton, Devon. It was cold enough to take my breath away!Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
Attachment 2379 Like these for example! As big and bigger than dinner plates.
I got stung by one in Cuba. A couple of tentacles got stuck under my watch strap. Stung a bit. :rolleyes:
There were some quite warm bits off Teignmouth tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
Perhaps that was where Stef had weeed?
Ohhh dear......... sure a nice girl like Stef wouldn't dream of such a thing!
What makes you think I'm a nice girl?! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
I once weed in the sea in Hawaii only to find myself surrounded by hundreds of fish. That freaked me out a bit. Didn't do it again!