Would you stay in long? I love a winter swim but it would be an in and out job. I’ll probably have a swim in kilkee on New year’s Day.
Once you can stick it for three minutes, you can stay in about 15, but you get dangerously cold after that. You’d not stray far from shore at any stage tbh. Need to be careful, and wrap warm after. You’d be cold in your bones for an hour.
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I could do the stretch to three but 15 would be hardship I think. Out of practice too which probably counts for a lot.
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provided you dont get cold water shock first!
You don’t feel cold anymore after three, until you start to get properly hypothermic, and tbh it’s more of a common sense thing than a brutal shock thing then.
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An FYI for your summers, Galway city council are planning to upgrade the Blackrock diving tower and bathing area around it and improve the access and structural repairs to the tower. no indication on when it will happen, just at design stage now.
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Sounds like great craic
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About 10-20 mins depending on the weather. It’s not bad if theres a few of you to chat or if the waves are good you could be in all day.
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This’ll go four years and twenty million over budget.
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More negativity.
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We all know a civil service lifer like yourself is delighted to spend millions of euros of other people’s money on a four sided outdoor projector screen down the claddagh and a few lasers across a Connemara bog, feeling it great value for money. A few million on sticking a bigger lump of concrete into the sea, and a million or two legal fees, whilst the best swimming spot is closed down for years looks like a great deal for all.
Ok, how did you get access to my plans?
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Generic public service
you forgot that hell need to commission an inclusion report before a spade is turned
Where is that?
The bottom one is the 40 Foot in Sandycove. It’s like that every morning, busier sometimes.
The top one is a little harbour called Coliemore in Dalkey. That’s Dalkey Island in the background. Beautiful morning but a cold swim.
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That’s the same location yesterday afternoon.
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I’ve a photo on the wall of the kids jumping in off the top of BlackRock at high tide in August two summers ago. It was mid afternoon. There’s only two or three other swimmers in the shot, and nobody on the boards other than them. Now you’ve to queue up. There’s no peace in it.