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Wild Swimming - exploring Britain's rivers, lakes and
waterfalls On a hot summer day, what could be more refreshing than slipping into the cool, clear waters of a secret lake? And what could be more exciting than plunging into a hidden waterfall? Britain’s freshwater rivers, lakes and waterfalls are cleaner, safer and more accessible than at any time in living memory and the health benefits of a natural dip are also now well known. Wild Swimming.co.uk is here to help you enjoy a summer of picnics and splash-abouts in some of Britain most watery and hidden beauty spots. To start with why not check out our new photo-guide book. Latest News and Posts  The programme was released today for the Hay Literary Festival,
the largest literary festival in the world. Daniel Start will
be talking about ’Wild Swimming’ (together with Harry Bingham on ‘This
Little Britain’) at a bright and breezy 9am on bank holiday Monday 26th
May. Find us on the Guardian stage. You can download a brochure for the whole 9-day event here.
Later in the day at 2.30pm we’re organising a wild swim from the meadows of Hay Warren the
lesiurely 200m downstream, back into town, with canoes support from the lovely people at Wye Valley Canoes . For more on Hay Warren and the long tradition of wild swimming at Hay see the Upper Wye chapter from the book. Posted 30th April 2008. New Outdoor Swim Google Map! We’ve laboured away and loaded up a range of wild swims into the nice maps from Google. You can find them here. We've added a litle selection from the Wild Swimming book but it’s mainly a place for
new outdoor swims. Please consider becoming a 'collaborator'
(!) on Google maps and uploading your own favourite places with photos so we can help grow this collection.
Alternatively email us at swims AT wildswimming.co.uk and we’ll upload
them for you. And if you know of any amazing sea swims - coves, caves,
islands, arches, rock pools, please let us know about those too - or how about wild swimming in other countries? Oh
yes, and the best contributions every month win a free book! Posted 26th April 2008 BBC Radio in the Midlands! Daniel joined the esteemed Annie Othen on BBC Radio Coventry and
Warwickshire for a programme about swimming. You can hear all about why
Wild Swimming is just the tonic, but why Coventry isn’t quite the
place, here, on Bliptv here.
He then went to Herefordshire to join trialthlete and international
rugby player, Nicola Goodwin, on the banks of the Wye. You can find
interviews and articles on the BBC Hereford and Worcester site here. Posted 21st April 2008 |
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