Outdoor Swimming – The Polar Bear Challenge Report

By: Blonde Two

Back in November, I started the rather chilly outdoor swimming Polar Bear Challenge. This five-month challenge involves skin swimming (which does require a swimsuit but… Read full article

Tuesday’s Ten – Types of Seaweed

By: Blonde Two

It continues to be stormy down here by the Devon seaside, which means that, as an outdoor swimmer with a serious sea swimming addiction, I… Read full article

Foo foo deep in seaweed

By: Blonde Two

After an idyllic summer, November in Devon turned out to be a month of storms, disrupted travel and copious seaweed. We have had seaweed everywhere,… Read full article

Tuesday’s Ten – Instructions for the Polar Bear Challenge

By: Blonde Two

As I am coming to the end of my 50 sleeps for 50 years challenge, I have decided to accept another (even chillier) challenge for… Read full article

Wave Cadence

By: Blonde Two

Wave Cadence – the rhythmical flow and pattern of waves Storm passes… Sea-strewn scraps, Along pebble flung passageways, Lead to… Milk-jelly waters, Of glacial… Read full article

B2 50 Sleeps for 50 Years – September Progress

By: Blonde Two

At the beginning of January (the month of my 50th birthday), I set myself the Get Outside challenge of sleeping outdoors (or very nearly outdoors) for 50 nights… Read full article

Sea Swimming – A Brixham Seal Encounter

By: Blonde Two

A couple of weeks ago a swimming friend (Julia) and I decided to head to waters new for our morning sea swimming session (to be… Read full article

Sea swimming – how to see where you are going

By: Blonde Two

My absolutely favourite view when I am swimming in the sea is that goggle-clad one when half my vision is of the air and half… Read full article

Tuesday’s Ten – Things you might find in the sea

By: Blonde Two

The summer holidays have arrived and, down here in Devon, so have the crowds (other words are available but we do try to be as… Read full article

Seaside life – sometimes it pays to just sit and watch

By: Blonde Two

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside… mainly to swim but sometimes, when you get outside and visit the beach, unexpected experiences can… Read full article

2 sea swims – what a difference 12 hours makes

By: Blonde Two

‘A silly o’clock’ swim’ was what a friend called her suggestion for an early morning birthday (her’s not mine) swim. Quarter to six in the… Read full article