Swim tomorrow morning at 8.15 – if it’s like today, we’ll be blessed!
Myrtleville today – who needs Lanzarote! We’re only a little jealous 🙂
Tom & Pat – enjoying the sunshine.
Shiny in the sun
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Hats on Tour
Hot off the presses and already globe-trotting – seen in Lanzarote just yesterday.
New sign on the beach at Playa Grande, Puerto del Carmen.
Looks just like Myrtleville! Hats get tested for heat resistance.
Swim hats
It may have taken just a bit longer than planned, but our new hats are now printed and available in yellow or white. Thanks to everyone who entered and our sponsors from Diesel, North Main Street and Centra, Crosshaven.
The judges decided they liked parts of three different entries – from three different families!  No expense was spared in finding the leading experts in the field to combine these into a logo for print (thanks, Joleen!) and here’s the result. No longer sad…
Happy Hat.
With input from the Frost, O’Neill and Russell family entries, the logo combines Roches Point, the Dutchman rocks and a piece of graffiti familiar to everyone who swims in Myrtleville –Â “Edging Insanity” –Â from the doors of the old boathouse.
For Rock Trivia fans: Edging Insanity was a short-lived Waterford band, who played in the Pine Lodge – or maybe just visited the beach – and left their mark forever: or until the doors get painted!!  They split in 2010 😦
Recipients from the Frost, O’Neill & Russell families – with judge, jury & sponsors!
Lots of entrants!
Hats are available at the cost price of €8 each from Bernard Lynch, Damian O’Neill or Carol Cashell.
Presentation over – time for a swim!
Trying out the hats.
Thanks again to everyone who entered and assisted.
Saturday swims and poses.
Saturday was a bit dreary but the water was swimmable and over 9c. Two groups in during the day – the normal 8.15am and a group from Blackwater Tri at 1.00. Amazingly, Siobhan arrived to take pictures of the first group and then swam with the second. Dedicated to the cause and no mistake 🙂
Just down to take the pictures – not swimming until lunchtime.
Fair dues to the Blackwater group, they knew she was a hero and gave her a throne.
Siobhan Russell gets a lift – well done Nigel Carroll and Martin Buckley.
As ever, when Siobhan says “pose” –
Blackwater Tri – they’re really up for posing for Siobhan. And swimming too, of course.
We’ll be launching the new swim hats on an unsuspecting world at 5.45 today, before the usual 6.00 swim. Swims also planned on Thursday at 4.30pm and Saturday at 08.15.
First Monday night of 2014
Twelve swimmers in lovely sunshine and 9.5c water on the last day of March. The water was a small bit lumpy with a SE wind, but still a great start to the Monday nights for 2014.
Dan O’Mahony and Dave Smyth in for their first sea swim of 2014.
First Monday night of 2014.
Denis joins Anne and Carmen in togs.
4.30pm this Thursday and Saturday at 08.15, as usual.
Watch that wave, Anne.
As has been noted on this site regularly, Denis Condon has been a diligent swimmer all Winter. An example to us all, he has missed very few days in the sea. Last week he was in Fountainstown and decided to ditch the wetsuit. It was a momentous occasion, witnessed by Anne & Carmen and recorded for posterity by a passing delivery man (fair dues, Bernard).
Denis in Skin! With supporter & camera team.
Not content with a photo, Anne Sheehy waded in a few feet to record the event. Denis ploughed through the waves and Anne was so focused – well, just watch the 23 seconds of the video 🙂
The non-humorous part is that Anne says the slipway in Fountainstown is like a cheese grater if you meet it the wrong way! Ouch. The good news was she was fully recovered for the first Monday night last night and duly posed for Siobhan!
Anne – survived the grater and made it for the first Monday night of 2014.
Cliff erosion
I saw an article saying that the Irish coastline has lost up to two metres in soil in various areas during the Winter storms.   A couple of weeks ago, Siobhan was employing her waterproof camera. The shot below of Rob McFadden gives a good view on the right – his left – of the battering the cliff in Myrtleville has taken from the storms.
Rob gets the waterproof camera treatment – but is shunted to the side to show the erosion!
When you look at it from the sea, it does look like there’s a good bit of soil gone there.
I also came across this site from UCC on coastal erosion, which specifically references the Myrtleville cliffs as susceptible to erosion.
Don’t just take my word for it – go down swimming and look back in at it 🙂
Worth getting up for.
We got in one more morning in March. The water was flat calm on a low tide. Temps were 5c on land and even though it had dipped back to 7.8c in the sea, it was a beautiful swim to the Dutchman and back.
Denis Condon first into the water – Myrtleville sunrise on March 26, 2014.
From about April 18 onwards we will have sunrise on our side again – let the Summer begin!
Swims & Selfies
Lots of swims this weekend with groups in on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Denis Condon was at all of them, of course! The water was between 8.4c and 9.2c – not bad at all for March.
A bit chilly after Sunday’s swim – need a hot water bottle.
It’s great to see all the celebs encouraging no-make-up selfies in the fashion press. Here’s local celebrity, B. Lynch, with his contribution.
I think I better avoid Crosshaven for a few days after publishing this one 🙂
Bernard Lynch’s no make-up selfie.
Swims this week on Wednesday, March 26 @ 06.30 (in the morning!); Thursday, March 27 at 4.30pm & Saturday, March 29 at 08.15.
Myrtleville Mondays at 6pm are back next week, starting on 31 March 🙂
Munster Open Water Swim Calendar 2014
Finbarr Hedderman has done his usual fantastic job and the 2014Â calendar is here.
Of course, June 28 is the only one you really need to look at.
Also in PDF form here 2014 Sea Swim Calendar.
Enter and Enjoy 🙂
The leading group start their swim in the annual RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay Swim 2013. Picture: Howard Crowdy.
Myrtleville Swimmers 