Some chap was telling me a couple of months ago that he’s been swimming across a local lake every morning for years.. One day he got out to be greeted by two police officers who told him he had to stop doing it.. Some bird watcher had complained that he was scaring the birds 😐

do you guys just go alone or make sure there are some other people about? I like the idea of it but I can imagine the mrs having kittens if I announced I was off to swim a loch or river by myself

Abstraction has killed a lot of the spots around my way and my youths.. the Kennet was definitely deeper 25 years ago.

Used to swim across here every day ~2km

Just had to watch out for the snakes in the reeds at the other side 🙂

When I lived in the Lake District I would do it most days. Just jump in the lake and go for a swim. Avoid being hit by yachts.