How To: Deal with Sea Lice and Swimmer’s Itch (aka Duck Itch)

Around the world, 2018 has been a hot summer. I predicted early on before the heat wave that 2018 would see a lot of jellyfish, and so it transpired. I also predict that we will see early and more noticeable Sea Lice in swimmers this year, beginning possibly as early as the first week of…

How To: Understand the Features and Hazards of the Different Types of Open Water Swimming Locations – II – Lakes and Rivers

This is the second of a three-part series covering the features and hazards of open water swimming locations, the first of which covered the ocean.The Ocean is sufficiently complex and changeable to require its own article. I had intended in this second part to cover the remaining locations but the article was simply too long. Part Three will cover…

Sea Lice, Seabather’s Eruption and Swimmer’s Itch

Sea Lice covered in this post from 2011. Possibly due to the early summer three-week-long heatwave in Ireland, the itching we associated with sea lice has started early in the first week of August instead on late August or September when the problem usually arises. It usually noticed while in the sea. I usually notice…