Safety checklist for open water swimming and dipping
With summer officially here and the waters warming in the UK, more people will be heading to lakes, rivers and the coast to take a dip or open water swim. We want everyone to have fun and of course experience the beauty of open water swimming and dipping, but want to encourage you all to do it...
SwimTrek Love!
With stunning waters, great food and like minded people, it's not unusual for friendships to form on a SwimTrek trip. For some something a little magical happens, and a romance blossoms. And so with Valentines day this weekend, we thought we would share some loving tales of SwimTrekkers who...
Swimming the Baltic Lakes of Lithuania
I stood on the balcony of my room looking out over the waters of Lake Lusiai suddenly hit by the journey that was ahead of me. A month before I had been studying for my finals when my phone rang and my friend Shona was on the other end. Shona is one of the life optimistic folk, always positive...
The Corsican Connection
SwimTrek founder Simon Murie is a regular feature in the H2Open Magazine, introducing readers to iconic swims from around the world. This month Simon writes of how he tackled the relatively untried Mediterranean crossing from Corsica to Sardinia. Read the H2Open article here: The Corsican...
Alcatraz - The 1,000th Crossing
Gary Emich is an accomplished and well-travelled open water swimmer and is a regular guide for SwimTrek. What makes Gary truly unique, is his obsession with Alcatraz. Not only does Gary already hold the record for the greatest number of Alcatraz Island swims. He is also about to embark on his...
Swimming the River Tagus, Lisbon, Portugal in the Wake of Lord Byron
"I swim in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhoea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.” Lord Byron, 1809 So said the English poet Lord Byron after...
