Nowt’ so good as a shower adaptor

A slight change of tactics today, a stiff South Easterly wind swept across the beach offering us shelter at the other end of the beach, so a walk across the length of the beach we did, in our dribs and drabs.  Scouring the litter on the beach we could see a lot has been washed up.  Doing our little bit we cleared up what was in reach and vowed to organize a litter picking day on Dec 3^rd.  Most interesting bit of litter?  A large crate from Portsmouth fish market! J

So the wind swept, and the waves crashed and the clothes came off under the shelter of the East Groyne.  Our general chat of comparing neoprene kit for the extremities turned a high point when Pete was about to unveil his hood – but not sure what happened to it.  Moments later I was in the sea and Pete didn’t have a suit on so I was confused – it was early, forgive me.   We had to wade through the breakers, bashing us as a warning not to come in unless you wanted to play hard.  But we all took no notice of the warning and headed in.  I love going in when its rough like that.  Picking your moment, diving under a wave, jumping another.  Just a moment of madness between yourself and the sea.  You can’t hear anyone else, or see anyone else, you just have to pick your own way through and meet everyone 25m out, great stuff.  First to join me out there was Paul, followed closely by Alex. We noticed the girls a little way back so head off for our first width.  Upon returning to the middle of the beach the rest of the gang were out, including Pete (which is when I noticed the no-suit).   From a distance we could see Stefan heading across the beach, but at this stage we all needed to get moving and watch the conditions.  Turning round we all completed several widths of the groynes enjoying the rolling waves and occasional dumping with white water.

After 20 mins it was time to turn in so we made our way back and let the current sweep us across the beach exiting (with perfect timing and finesse I have to say, towards the western side of the beach, hobbling back over the stones back to the towels.  Joan caught a pic of us leaving the water attached below.  Back to the towels we tried Joan’s amazing shower attachment to her hot water stash, giving us a perfect warm shower on the beach – fancy that, and we all shivered our way to fully clothed again before the working day commenced.  Thoroughly good fun!  Discussion took us on to the subject of the promise of SSF merchandise -  so watch this space!

In: 07:13

Out 07:35

Swimmers:  Joan, Ollie, Alex, Pete, Paul, Hildi, Sara, Steffan.