Burgh Island swim

Lush

James off the furthest point of the island
Catching my breath before swimming on
swimming on
Heading in to swim
Beautiful clear water...


Swimming, swimming, swimming, that's all I seem to have been doing so far this week....
Lovely swim up the river Avon on Tuesday pm with James and several hundred grey mullet! It's very funny swimming as the tide is turning - the river is quite warm when the seas water comes in, but then every so often there are cold patches where the fresh water comes down, consequently we end up getting a chill afterwards and take a while to warm up.

Yesterday we were lined up for a pool swim, so headed into Kingsbridge, only to be greeted by a sign saying 'pool full, next session at 2pm', bugger!! We had a quick pastie and headed home to greet our weekend guests. After a cup of tea and some flapjack we drove down to Bigbury with our wetsuits in the car and were amazed to see a flat calm sea - it would be rude not to jump in and swim round the island thought Jimbo, so we did.....! I popped over to see the Lifeguards and to check on the conditions, an was advised to head round clockwise. We jumped in and headed between the rocks and round to the back of the island..... in a comedy moment I ended up swimming on top of James when he stopped on top of a rock just under the water. We carried on round and the water got deeper and deeper - every so often I saw a flicker of something, but couldn't decipher what as it was so dark - especially with my dark goggles.
We seemed to be going great guns, I think we were assisted a little by the current, I relaxed into my stroke and kept going.
Eventually we got round the point at the end of the island and started heading back - we didn't take the normal detour through the rocks as this can be a bit hairy - plus we needed to make sure we swam far enough. I started to get a bit chilly as we started on the final leg and was glad to see the beach getting nearer - a cormorant was popping up infront of us with a crab in his mouth, then dropping it back in, popping down to grab him again etc... we were fascinated by it and watched for a few minutes. We did a quick spot of filming, then headed on in to be greeted by Lynora and some towels on the beach, hooray, we made it!!!