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Wild Swimming - Favourite links
RALSA
is the River and Lake Swimming Association founded by veteran wild
swimmers Yacov Lev and Rob Fryer (also chairman of the Farleigh
Hungerford River Swimming Club).
Cool Camping, also published by Punk Publishing, is a series of beautiful and inspiring guides to camping and the great outdoors
Off-Grid is a blog and book by Nick Rosen dedicated to getting out of the rat race and living independently.
Bushgear specialise in equipment for low impact camping and outdoor adventures
Low Fly Zone encouarges you to commit to not fly for a year (though you can still fly for work). Holiday at home!
Henleaze Lake Swimming Club: membership is one of Britsol's most sort after commodities! See their new book on the history of this quarry lake.
Outdoor Swimming Society:
founded by Kate Rew they organise outdoor sponsored swims and have also
just published a book, called 'Wild Swim', which includes lidos, the sea and much longer swims.
The Ramblers
promote walkers' rights and activities around Britain and featured some
our best wild swimming locations in their recent magazine 'Walk'. They
are campaigning for better access to the coast, among other things.
British Canoe Union are fighting for better rights for all river users and sponsor the Rivers Access Campaign
UK Rivers Guidebook is a resource for kayakers and canoers but has some useful information for swimmers too.
Clear Water Revival make freshwater swmming ponds and pools which require no chemicals
Beach Campsites - a new web guide to, you guessed it, the best beach campsites
Campervantastic, based in London and rent out T5 VW California campervans. Their campervans make
a great swimmers' vehicle especially in colder weather with heated seats and timer
controllable air blown heating system.
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The
latest book from the people who brought you Cool Camping with
detailed maps and hundreds of photos, locations, activities and
stories. Available from the 21st April 2008
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