On Sunday we did a mid winter swim at Mairangi Bay beach. There were 9 swimmers, more than I anticipated which may have been because of the weather. The weather, and the forecast, leading up to the swim had been universally grim, a series of cold fronts moving up the country and gale force winds. Queenstown had to cancel most of the winter carnival due to bad weather!
But on Sunday morning we had a glorious day, the sun was shining and the wind was much weaker than I had hoped for. I'm not sure we would have had quite so many swimmers if it was raining and blowing a gale.
Just to add to the occasion, a small pod of dolphins swam past the beach, inside the buoys that Vic & I had put out, just 10 min before we started out. A lovely sight, what a pity we were not in the water when they went past.
The swim went very well, the water is cold (13 degrees celcius Geoff said) but not too bad after a few minutes. Most of us got out to the sailing buoy straight out from the club house, maybe 600m out.
Afterwards we went to a cafe' in Mairangi bay for breakfast & coffee. Vic & I had made up some certificates and Vic had brought some spot prizes from work which we handed out. I ended up with a collapsible walking stick, very nice with a compass & whiskey in the handle, but I'm not sure what Vic meant by giving it to me!!
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