Robynne set off from Samphire Hoe just west of Dover for the start of her channel swim. If you go to the WhatsApp chat (linked below), you will see another link to the Sea Leopard, her guide boat. It has a map showing the boat's progress. The start…
Our mouths stood agape as we walked down into the park and gazed over Juniper Bay. What was that we saw? Was it flat water? We weren't sure what it looked like anymore. Was this it? We did a deep dive into our memory banks to try to recall…
"We're sloggin' in the rain
Just sloggin' in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
We're happy again"
We just completed two swims in the last 24 hours and the conditions for the second swim this morning were the same as last night's.
A group of four of us ambitiously started out at 7:15 with a plan to swim all the way to Cosens Bay Point. However, a heavy chop that got bigger at the Point put a damper on our enthusiasm and we decided that Gary's log was ambitious…
I realized that the weather app was lying when it said we were getting gusts up to 9 km per hour while I was watching a windsurfer skimming across the lake. It didn't forecast any rain for this afternoon at 4 pm. However, that changed a bit…
Hello Kal Lake Swimmers:
Welcome to the first day of summer! It certainly felt like summer this morning for the seventeen of us at Juniper Beach. The water temperature had regressed a bit to 18 degrees. The fifteen swimmers bundled under a thick layer of rubber didn't seem to care too much,…
Sunny skies, glassy water, and a perfect 27 degree air temperature greeted the senile old man as he gingerly waded into the waters of Juniper Beach.
With a cloudburst clearing out Juniper Beach ninety minutes earlier sunshine and calm(er) water greeted Phred, Alison, Sean and me for our inaugural afternoon swim yesterday. My thermometer read 18.2 degrees at the beach, warm enough for me to join Sean and Phred swimming naked. Alison elected…