Tramore, my main swimming location

Most of my lone swimming is at: Tramore Bay, Guillamenes and Newtown Cove. The Guillamenes is the best County Waterford open-water swimming spot. It is located about 2 miles outside of Tramore town, down the steps at the bottom of a 40 foot cliff on the West side of the bay, about 1000 metres before…

Irish South Coast swimming conditions

For the South/South East, very warm water temperature, if we get them (which we haven’t really the last 2 summers), would be 17°C/18°C i.e. 62.5°F/64°F. Or at least there were 4/5 days I recall last year that I swam here in those temps. There was no consistent period however at that level, except one good…