Wild Swimming

[Hamish]

Hi,

I thought this may be of interest to all the nature lovers here!
Below is a link to a website based in the UK which gives a great deal of information about swimming in the rural outdoors. This site also has many scenic photographs of various landscapes around the UK.

http://www.wildswimming.co.uk/index.html

There are some hardy souls in some of these pictures as all bodies of water in this country are always cold!

[Sik]

Cool, they even have a nice section coming soon it seems :D
http://www.wildswimming.co.uk/skinny.html

[Bomagnon]

  this is great.. i saw a clip on this a while ago!!

[escape]

I'd love to try wild swimming, but only really if it was naked... Seems like they would be a very good fit...

[AElf]

Cool!  This is just about the only kind of swimming I do during the summer months --- went for a (very brief) dip yesterday --- bracing (magnificent understatement) but a bit too early yet.  Only in winter do I habitually stoop so low as to swim in pools.

[bunnyrabbit]

Cool!  This is just about the only kind of swimming I do during the summer months --- went for a (very brief) dip yesterday --- bracing (magnificent understatement) but a bit too early yet.  Only in winter do I habitually stoop so low as to swim in pools.

I tried to swim few days ago. Think I managed to swim for 10 m in every direction (less than 2 minutes of time in water)

[prodigal_son]

There was a great program on wild swimming last night on bbc4. Worth a view. At the end the presenter, can't remember her name, goes skinny dipping which she loves. Although at times she does drawer comparisons between nudity and sex. A great program all the same. 

[DoozerUK]

Just to let you know, the author of Wild Swimming, has recently published a similar guide for France:

http://www.wildswimming.co.uk/2177/wild-swimming-france/

... and it includes a section on the best skinny dipping places!