Wild Swim: see the films online now
Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Guardian films have recently made five shorts with Kate Rew (author of Wild Swim) and other members of the OSS swimming their way around Britain. The films are now available to view at guardian.co.uk/travel.
Please watch them and pass them on to your friends. If anyone ever wondered what you saw in outdoor swimming, they will wonder no longer!
1. FAIRY POOLS, SKYE. In the first film, Kate Rew finds real magic swimming in the Fairy Pools in the midst of the Isle of Skye's Cuillin Mountain range.
2. RYDAL WATER CUMBRIA,. In the second film, Kate swims in Rydal Water in the Lake District.
3. LUMB FALLS, W. YORKSHIRE. In the third film, Kate swims the sparkling Lumb Falls at the heart of poet Ted Hughes' childhood landscape.
4. BURGH ISLAND, DEVON. It's safety in numbers this time for the fourth film of the series, swimming over a mile of open ocean around Burgh Island in Devon.
5. SOUTH STOKE, OXFORDSHIRE. In the final film of our wild swimming series, Kate revives the lost tradition of bathing in the Thames with a dip at South Stoke, Oxfordshire.
If you love the films, please sign up as an OSS member - membership is free, and you will receive monthly newsletters full of swim tips, social swims, and anything else connected to water from art to ecology.
The society's thanks go to the creatives at Guardian films who made these lovely films: Mike Tait (Head of Development and Executive Producer), Lindsday Poulton (Director), Nigel Pickford (cameraman), Andy (driver, artist, lynchpin and saviour who deserves a second name) and Graham Hadfield (composer).
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