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A wee splash about in the sea with some of the Heb Sea Swimmers ladies this morning at Gress Beach. Plenty of good sized waves. Well done to everyone as it wasn't easy going. A few seals watching us and laughing. Duckman was saying 6.5 degrees.

26/1/2019

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Polar bear swim at the Braighe this morning. Spent more time looking around the Ui Church and graveyard (http://www.uichurch.co.uk/) than swimming. It's a fascinating place and a good swim spot nearby too. Duckman was saying 5.4c, 400 metres at 8 minutes

19/1/2019

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Road trip to Hushinish for January's first polar bear challenge swim. Love swimming there, with lots of different places to swim and explore. Bit lumpy getting out but good fun. Duckman was saying 7.8 degrees. 600metres @ 15 minutes.

12/1/2019

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Giordail beach coastal swim at Tolsta this morning. Great Heb Sea Swimmers turnout for a January dook. Cracking scenery around there. Some of us swam the arch and across to the tunnel. Will be back again for some more. Duckman was saying 8 degrees.

6/1/2019

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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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