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Wild Open Swim
Inspirations from swimming through the seasons
The Wild Open Swim Blog is a celebration of open water swimming all year and the photographs, words and artwork that it has inspired.
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Tony Davis
Jan 11, 2023
4 min read
Poems from the river
In this post we see the river through the experience of Tony Davis, an Oxfordshire artist, poet and fisherman. Tony was inspired to write...
Fiona Undrill
Aug 29, 2022
8 min read
Campaign to save our rivers & seas
Although we would prefer our articles to reflect the many ways the water helps us, we must acknowledge we swim through the scene of a crime.
kath Fotheringham
May 29, 2021
4 min read
Is it clean…?
We all have strategies to risk-assess the water every time we swim. Is it clean enough to swim in?
Emma Hallmark
Dec 19, 2020
3 min read
The creative flow
For as long as I can remember, I have had a deep connection with water – in any form. Something about it draws me close to it,...
Shona
Dec 5, 2020
3 min read
The joy of swimming
Swimming is my joy. It is the time when I feel every bit of my body, and enjoy it in a way that is lost to me when I am on dry land.
Darrin Roles
Oct 8, 2020
8 min read
Fear and freedom
Three open water swimmers reveal their primal fears in the water...
Genny Early
Jul 23, 2020
3 min read
Wildlife and wild swim
From the silty current of the Thames: a wild-swimmer’s view of the wildlife
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