Lazy Swimmer

A Deakinesque attempt to swim all the way along and around the coastline and tidal rivers of Sydney, by swimming at least one length of every ocean rock pool and tidal baths (with sundry digressions).

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Great Harwood Baths in Lancashire

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I've got more than a few memories of these swimming baths. It was in the pool here that I first learned to swim. I would have been 11 ye...

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Ramsbottom Baths

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I'm spending a couple of wintry weeks in England visiting family. It's been quite cold and wet, but we've only had one day of ic...

Friday, January 7, 2011

London Fields Lido

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I went for a swim at the marvellous London Fields Lido on a cold, grey day in London. It was absolutely pouring with rain, and areas of the ...

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Petersham Pool In The Rain

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For the first time in many years, I didn’t swim on Christmas Day or Boxing Bay. I had badly cut my foot on oyster shells a few days earlier ...

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Great Harwood Baths

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The very place I learned to swim. Though I'd been to Wigan Baths before I came here (and to Accrington Baths long before that), I was a ...

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Wigan Baths

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About a year ago now, Wigan Baths closed down in preparation for the demolishing of the old pool and the building of a new swimming and leis...

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Chris: An occasional, slow cyclist and a lazy swimmer.

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