The clearest wild swimming waters in the United States: rivers, springs and ocean spots worth the detour
https://matadornetwork.com/read/clearest-waters-us-go-wild-swimming/
Swimming pools are nice and all, but nothing beats swimming in wild waters, be they rivers, springs, or oceans. Whether you bathe for ritual purposes, for exercise, for the fun of it, or because it's…
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Swimming pools are nice and all, but nothing beats swimming in wild waters, be they rivers, springs, or oceans. Whether you bathe for ritual purposes, for exercise, for the fun of it, or because it's… #travel #us #wildswimming
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“When we did our work, it was just like magic,” Roe recalls.
“The Gorge came back to life like you would not believe.”
#rewilding #oceans #waterways #victoria #bc #canada #wildswimming #restoration #community
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-restoration-is-real-but-the-pressures-remain/
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Last swim with the built-in floating devices. Quite fittingly, my trusty orange Puffin personal buoy has also handed in its notice after 6ish years of oceans and lakes. Fair enough. I'll treat myself to a fancy new dry bag buoy in October. Speaking of October: I tried to have a wee chat with Poseidon, and hopefully we made a deal for calm seas on my first swim back. But who knows? The gods can be fickle after all.
#wildSwimming #wildSwimmer #transmasc #transMan #topSurgery #Galicia
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I went for a swim yesterday outdoors. The water is now chilly though not yet cold. It was lovely once in. I'm hoping I might get used to cool water and this won't be the last time.
I am not an autumn lover but the end of summer doesnt distress me like it used to.
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Coming to the end of two weeks #wildswimming in the French Alps. Don’t want to come home.
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You'd hardly believe this is Spain in August 😆 a bit of rain—earlier this morning, not even now—has driven all but the wetsuited serious swimmers away, and I pretty much had the beach to myself. 🤩 Amazing last swim with tape. Next two weeks I have to either brave it in a binder or sports bra or just skip swimming entirely. We'll see. But right now, all that matters is that one perfect swim. 🥰
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You'd swear this was a lagoon in the South Pacific. It's northern Sweden.
Turquoise water over flat slate ledges near Gäddede in Jämtland — no palms, no reef, just birch and moss on the cliff above and a current cold enough to steal your breath.#sweden #schweden #Jämtland #WildSweden #WildSwimming #NordicNature #VisitSweden #travelphotography #natur #nature
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Why swimming in the Rhine is allowed in Switzerland but banned in Germany.
Basel has spent decades making the Rhine safe for swimmers, while German cities are imposing bans.
Could a growing European push to reclaim urban waterways change that?
#Rhine #River #Swimming #Switzerland #Germany #WildSwimming #WaterQuality #Basel
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From One Day to The Next at a Borders Loch
Lindean Loch approach It’s what is sure to be the final hot day of the summer, and my friend and I have just squeezed our cars into the rows of parked vehicles close to the entrance to Lindean Loch, a popular spot for seasonal recreation in the Scottish Borders. We are not here to frolic in fun, but to savour our last truly warm swim of the summer. But as we trudge along the leafy path stippled with colourful splashes of red campion and rosebay willowherb with our bags of kit, to the entry […]https://lynnefisher.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/from-one-day-to-the-next-at-a-borders-loch/
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Wild swim was lovely this morning! I took my litter picking stuff and we got two bags of rubbish and discarded towels.
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Details from the "August" entry — complete with wild swimmers — in the "Labors of the Months" section of the Très Riches Heures, 15th century. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures #wildswimming #august
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Spectacular spots to dive into nature #travel #wildswimming #uk
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Spectacular spots to dive into nature #travel #wildswimming #uk
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Try Europe’s best city-to-wild-swim rail trips this summer
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Rugged valleys, glistening lakes and golden-sand beaches – while…
#Europe #EU #basque #bergen #European #GameofThrones #lakeorta #Turin #wildswim #wildswimming
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The Seine reopens to Paris swimmers for second summer.
Swimmers will for the second year be able to cool off at designated points along the Seine river in Paris this summer, authorities said Friday, as well as along the Marne river in the suburbs.
In Paris, the swimming season was to open at three official bathing sites on 4 July, the mayor’s office said.
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Tidal Pool Swim
In Hermanus on Monday to collect our unsold paintings from an art gallery we decided a bit of tidal pool swimming was in order. We discovered Ficks Pool and decided that was the right thing to do.
The water was icy probably 16°C but still we swam and it was fun.
And I got caught by a wave!
We had coffee and a pizza in a restaurant overlooking the pool afterwards.
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Not really #wildswimming but a beautiful, picturesque tidal pool in #Hermanus
Fresh sea water refilling the pool at every high tide.
Cold water at 16°C and fish cruising in comparative safety
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/26958/ Secluded Lake District swimming spot named among Britain’s top hidden pools #BlackMossPot #Britain #ConistonWater #TheLakeDistrict #WildSwimming
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A 100 m swim across the slow moving Breede [Wide] River through Kariba Weed and then back again.
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Can wild swimming unite communities against single-use plastics?
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Can wild swimming unite communities against single-use plastics?
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Först kom #skogsbad, sen kom #wildswimming och nu #frifödsel.
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The joy of wild swimming 🏊♂️ #man #male #muscle #muscular #naturism #naturist #wildswimming #nature #openwater #openwaterswimming
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“My body is in shock, thus tense, it could slip and dunk without me noticing it’s happening. Dunk is how some like it. I like to observe the pain, to be mindful.” How is to swim in a lake in Portuguese mountains? #travel #portugal #wildswimming explorexchange.org/sometimes-ad...
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Lovely afternoon for paddleboarding along the North Tyne; calm and sunny. You can paddle 1.25km upstream from Chollerford before the current deflects you. Then I had a quick swim... it's definitely getting colder! 🥶😂 Only 6 minutes according to my Garmin, and it was beginning to feel chilly!
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After the Seine, French swimming activists strive to follow the Parisian example.
Across France, grassroots groups are organising activist dives to demand free and safe access to rivers and urban pools as heat waves increase the need to cool off.
#Swimming #WildSwimming #Rivers #France #HeatWaves #Environment #Water #WaterQuality #WaterPollution #Pollution
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new theory: it's not the swimming that makes meI think it's the MCAS but I'm wondering if and swim pals have noticed similar. so tired but the godsdamned sun! I was fine in June. I'm not more disabled now than I was in June! It is way sunnier though. fuck's sake, can't wait for summer to be over.
I think it's the MCAS but I'm wondering if any other wild swimmers have noticed similar.
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From a swim in the North Tyne yesterday evening. I placed the lens of my GoPro just into the water. 😎
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The heatwave fuels a rise in wild swimming across Amsterdam.
Amsterdam residents sought relief from the summer heat on Wednesday by plunging into the city’s network of canals, rivers and docks.
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Recommended tea break read! @edfinch.bsky.social's blog on his fundraising swims for Palestine. Descriptions of 19 (so far) wild swimming spots in Devon, and thoughts provoked thereby. Guest appearances by me. #wildswimming #Devon #salmon #nature #Palestine
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From a swim at Darden Lough yesterday. The water was feeling pretty nice, although starting to feel a little chilly after 10 minutes. 🥶
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Details from the "August" entry — complete with wild swimmers — in the "Labors of the Months" section of the Très Riches Heures, 15th century. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures #wildswimming #august
