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Few photos from this morning's 5k swim. 0 degrees on land, 6.3 degrees in the sea. Nice and sunny Monday morning. 5.25k @ 1hr41mins.

30/4/2018

Photo's from this mornings WITC Sprint and Super sprint event's. Great turnout and good weather for it too. Thanks to Back Football & Recreation Club for letting us use their facilities. Duckman was saying 7.4 degrees in the sea. 761metres @ 11.45mins

28/4/2018

Nice way to start the day off, with a pre work 5km swim down at Coll beach. The morning got brighter while I was out with the sun streaming through the sea. Duckman was saying 6.7 degrees on average. 5.08km @ 1hr 35mins

27/4/2018

Camping fun over at Mealista with Donna & Loki. Our favourite place to chillout, though this time we were chased home by some crazy cows....

20/4/2018

Nice 5k morning swim at Coll beach. Duckman was saying 7.7 degrees on average. Tough going up the way, towards the caravan park,easier on the way back. 1hr 51 mins.

16/4/2018

Good to be back in training again down at Coll, with an evening swim to the beach at the far end and back again. Duckman was saying a toasty 8.7 degrees on average. 4.5km @ 1 hour 28 mins.

13/4/2018

Stuart and myself doing a recce of the loch for this year's Heb Tri. You can enter solo or as a team (swimmer and cyclist/runner). Enquire via the website: http://hebtri.co.uk/

11/4/2018

Thanks to Margs and Andy for coming up from BSAC - British Sub-Aqua Club to train us and Lochbroom Leisure Centre for allowing us to use the pool and Ullapool Primary for allowing us in the drill hall. Am now a qualified Snorkel instructor.

7/4/2018

Thanks to Noel for the lift today. Had a great swim with Seth. Cracking swim spot you have there at Ardmair, outside Ullapool. Even saw a star fish. Duckman was saying 6.4 degrees.

7/4/2018

Easter Adventure Swim. An early Easter Sunday start for a swim recce over on the West Side with Stuart & Norma. Why have I not been out here before? 2 out of 3 arches swam. Duckman was saying 5.5 degrees. 2.95km distance swam.

1/4/2018

Colin S Macleod

Thanks for visiting my blog!

I've been a swimmer all my life and over the last several years I've done many challenging open water swims for charity all around our Islands which include the Sound of Barra & the Sound of Harris and both the Little & the Big Minch Channels to name a few.

Having a real passion for open water swimming, I spend a lot of my spare time looking for and discovering amazing new swim spots around the Islands.

I set up The Hebridean Sea Swimmers group in 2011 for all swimmers that live in or visit The Hebrides and it now has over 1000 members. I regularly meet up with visiting swimmers as I love to freely show off our Islands stunning swim locations.

SwimCamping and SwimHiking are my new adventures and having such an amazing playground on my doorstep is fantastic, double bagging my kit into the Lomo waterproof rucksack and swimming to an island for an overnight stay or longer is just the best.

Feel free to get in touch via the contact forms at the top of the page.

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