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Road trip over to the far end of Uig this morning for a wee wander about. Sea was too rough at Mealastadh for a swim so went for a fresh water skins dip in Loch Suainabhal instead. Duckman was saying 6.5c on average. 750 metres @ 18 minutes.

30/12/2018

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Traigh Mhor Coastal Swim. Tolsta offers fantastic coastal swimming and I'll definitely be back for more, with caves, arches, sea and bird life. Amazingly stunning to see..Duckman was saying 8 degrees average. 23.12.2018..

23/12/2018

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1st Polar Bear challenge swim for December - 16.12.2018

16/12/2018

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Last minute decision to head down to Coll beach and get in my first Polar Bear swim in December. Duckman was saying anything from 5.2c to 7.7c depending where I was (warmer as usual in front of the sea wall). 4c on land. 700metres @ 16mins

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Nice relaxing swim with Ed this morning down at Battery Park Bay. Swam across and back. Nice reef in the middle. Plenty of sea life on the go. Duckman was saying anything from 7.4c (over at sandwick side) to 9.3c. 1km @ 24mins.

8/12/2018

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Photo's from Rebecca's & Kath's wedding at Hathersage Lido. Met a fantastic bunch of people and had a cracking swim too. First time in a lido at the ripe old age of 46. Duckman was saying 27.5c (pool thermometer was saying 28c) 02.12.2018

2/12/2018

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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.

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