I find the trick with warm sea swimming (at least in Devon/Cornwall) is to go in the autumn, pick a still day and swim near the surface. The sea takes longer to warm up than the land, so just when all the tourists are going home at the beginning of September, the most pleasant time for swimming begins. I've swum in the sea in October, but I'd be much more wary of doing it in June!
Oddly, when I saw 'wild swimming' on this, I thought of it as a special thing intrepid people do in rivers, which I have only swum in rarely, because they tend to be muddy or hard to get to, and often have big signs saying 'Danger! No Swimming!
Logic tells me that the sea swimming I have done since I could barely walk is probably a hell of a lot more dangerous than most British rivers, but I suppose that familiarity tends to put dents in the feeling of wildness and danger...
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Date: 2012-04-16 04:04 pm (UTC)Oddly, when I saw 'wild swimming' on this, I thought of it as a special thing intrepid people do in rivers, which I have only swum in rarely, because they tend to be muddy or hard to get to, and often have big signs saying 'Danger! No Swimming!
Logic tells me that the sea swimming I have done since I could barely walk is probably a hell of a lot more dangerous than most British rivers, but I suppose that familiarity tends to put dents in the feeling of wildness and danger...