last sea swim of the year (probably)

Met up with a host of wild swimmers yesterday at Wells next the Sea (north Norfolk coast) for a bracing swim off the beach.

A red headed seal and a yellow capped red head
Picture courtesy of Tom Reed

Those I can remember - Sarah Tunnicliffe, Claire Woodhead, Tonia, Tom Read, Dan Martin, Bryn Dymott, Stuart, Sarah...and my memory gives up at this point.

The water was a very chilly 7.5 degrees and we all stayed in for 20 to 25 minutes, except Dan who stayed for a little longer. We were supposed to swim within the yellow bouys, but they weren't in deep water so we went further out - only to end up mixing it with launches going out to the wind farm offshore. The Harbour staff were none too happy, but no incidents occured. They did wind us up though by saying that Greenland Sharks had been attacking seals over the last few months. And readers I was shivering for some time; thankfully the coffee, cakes, sausages and flapjack did the trick.