Wild Swimming Days Out

We’re running a number of ‘Wild Swimming Days Out’ in 2023 and annually. These are swimming days that are designed for all-comers. We have swimmers that turn up and do head up breaststroke, all the way through to swimmers that’ll cover 3-4km. The day is designed to take in 3-4 swims, with minimal travel between swims. Our West Cornwall day out in 2023 saw us park up and manage 4 swims without moving vehicles. We typically set a rough area and then get in touch 2-3 days before the event, once we’ve seen an accurate forecast and announce the exact swim locations. This ensures that you swim in flat and enjoyable conditions.

Our west Cornwall Wild Swimming Days Out saw us swim from 2 secluded beaches to the west of Perranuthnoe, one beach swim from Perranuthnoe and another glorious swim towards Cuddon Point.

Penzance holiday activities guide

Now offering midweek swimming holidays, to run alongside our weekend and private booking activities, we thought it’d be a great idea to include a Penzance activities guide. An idea of additional activities you could undertake whilst visiting. OBVIOUSLY it’ll be difficult to compete against the swims we’ll offer but we’ll direct you to some providers that can compliment the swims.

Your first port of call might be to check out Kayak’s local area guide, particularly for accommodation - CLICK HERE.

You also want to check out some of the following :

1. Western Discovery - walking holidays

2. Ocean High beach hire/activities provider, Marazion

3. Ocean Sports Centre, Carbis Bay. Activities and hire centre

4. Kernow Coasteering

5. Electric bike hire - Ride On / Beryl Bikes

6. Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens

7. Sauna on the sea front

8. Local art galleries

9. Surf school Praa Sands / Surf school Sennen

10. Visit St Michael’s Mount

11. PASTIES!

12. Minack Theatre

13. Polgoon Vineyard and vineyard tours

14. Morrab Gardens

15. Good food and entertainment

16. Great food in town

17. Newlyn Filmhouse

18. Mousehole Harbour

Open water swimmers first aid course

We’ve been offering water safety, swim planning and rip current awareness courses for a few years now and they’ve been really well received. So, we’ve added this course to a half day of training, which also includes :

• First aid training

• CPR

• intro to using a defib

• Choking (adult, child and baby)

• towing techniques

• short practical in sheltered, shallow water

• We also spend a lot of time looking at hypothermia

• heart attacks / cardiac problems and other medical conditions…

Group swimming has never been more popular and we’ve specifically looked at issues that might crop up with swimming in groups. So, we’ve included :

• towing techniques, in case you have to tow someone to the shore. As an individual or as a group

• Choking, specifically including child and baby…as lots of swimmers are parents and grandparents

• There are a number of ‘mature’ swimmers in the water, so we’ve focused on conditions like fainting, heart issues (attacks, angina…), using defibs...

• Swimming year round is popular so we’ve included hypothermia, cold water shock, after drop etc.

• Pro-actively planning a swim and looking at the conditions.

The training is available through our website, with individual places and private group booking options.