Book Review – Wild Swimming Dartmoor
Our favourite publishers Wild Things Publishing have sent us another book to review, this time a little closer to home covering walks and swims in the beautiful countryside of Dartmoor and South Devon. The authors Sophie Pierce and Matt Newbury share their favourite swim/walks including wild waterfalls, secret lakes, river meadows and sandy seaside secret […]
Canterbury to Swalecliffe Walk Swim
Canterbury to Swalecliffe along the Crab and Winkle Way. This is taken from Wild Swimming Walks, walk number 21, distance 8.5 miles. We will be meeting at Brixton tube at 9am, Sunday 4th September, then traveling up to St Pancras London to catch the 10:08am train to Canterbury West station. The walk goes from the […]
Parliament Hill to the Ponds
Starting at Parliament Hill Lido Saturday 27th August, we’re off for another gentle stroll round Hampstead Heath and finishing with a glorious swim at the ponds. This is a repeat expedition of last October’s event… with warmer water. Meet outside Brixton Tube Station at 10am. We then travel to to Kentish Town, via Victoria and […]
Welsh Wales Weekend Walk
An amazing weekend in Snowdonia with the Facebook Swim Walks gang. Challenging terrain but well worth the slog to get to those remote Llyns (lakes in Welsh). Big thanks to Claire Towers and Philip Nice for some very tasty food and well planned walks. Looking forward to the next weekend away. [slideshow id=12]
Brockwell Water Polo July 2016
Mainly through word of mouth Water Polo in July proved to be even more popular with the last session filling the pool with 37 players. But with the evenings now too dark that’s it for another year. Sad, but “all good things…” as they say. A big THANK YOU to our amazing coach Jim who […]
Walking and Swimming Down South
Brockwellites went walking and swimming again, this time to the South Downs on a perfectly sunny day Saturday 23rd July. Starting at Brixton Tube early in the morning we picked up folk along the way and headed for our first splash at Pells Pool in Lewes, just East of Brighton. Claiming to be “the oldest […]
Join the team
We’re putting a team together to raise money for the MacMillan cancer charity’s All Out Swim happening Saturday 8th October. We have pledged to swim 2K (40 lengths) in relay and need four members. If more people join we’ll make up another team or change the length to 5K (100 lengths). It’s the perfect combination of […]
Seahorse Swim 2016
An amazing day at the annual 2K and 3.8K Seahorse Races held at Studland Bay, Dorset. Sun glinting on an almost flat sea made perfect conditions for a very enjoyable swim for a mixed group of wet-suited and and non-wet suited competitors. Winner of the 2k crossed the finish line after 33 minutes followed by […]