Finally got to swim again

[mtbc]

The Firth of Clyde has a few beaches along it. Previously we visited Lunderston Bay, last Saturday we drove to Prestwick Beach and I judged the water warm enough to swim in. Once I was in, others followed, and we had a nice time in the sea for a good while. The beach turned out to be rather shallow so one can go some way out before gaining much depth. Looking out toward Arran, the blue sky and white clouds reflected very prettily off the surface of the water. I hadn't noticed that from the beach, perhaps it helped to have my head closer to the surface. I expect the sea to stay warm enough into the autumn.

I am not sure of the nomenclature for bodies of water. When I swam off Cornwall, it was fairly clearly the Atlantic. Off Aberdeen, I thought of it as being the North Sea, and since our move we have been visiting the Firth. However, I wonder if those are technically also the Atlantic. Either way, they all seem more than adequate to me, just as I was happy enough to be swimming in Lake Erie, it has a distant horizon and waves and such.

We had a band of rain moving through Scotland yesterday so I am glad that we had chance to visit the beach before it arrived.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Wow. I would not be able to swim in that water. It's WAY too cold for my thin-blooded butt.

[mtbc]

I'd prefer to be back swimming off the Outer Banks or Batangas! I do have to keep moving and my toes look rather white when I'm done.