“On behalf of the President and people of Ireland, I’d like to welcome you to our shore” said the Newtown and Guillamenes Open Water Swimming Club President to me. The gentleman speaking was the eighty-five year old who has been swimming at the cove for over seven decades and the man who probably invented the original Ice…
After years of swimming T-Bay, I’ve gotten to know it reasonably well. A few years back I drew up a map of the pertinent features, from a swimming point of view. That map is a bit out of date, I’ve made a few discoveries since then, but I just keep it in my head now.…
Quick video taken from a few kilometers down Tramore beach at low tide. It was sunny so quite hazy. Given how much I feature the Guillamenes, this situates it a bit better with respect to the whole bay. The Guillamenes is on the west side of the bay, seemingly most of the way out to…
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