Words by Lydia Paleschi Very little equipment is required for a cold water swim. In the warmer months, just a towel and swimming costume will suffice. Alternatively, if you stumble across a spot unprepared, you can go for a skinny dip and sacrifice a piece of clothing for drying yourself with afterwards. However, there are a range of swimming accessories that can make a swimmer’s experience more safe, comfortable and enjoyable – particularly in the winter months. In this blog, we share our Christmas 2023 gift ideas with you, so that you can see which brands are our favourites for keeping us i ..read more

Words by Lydia Paleschi Recently, we’ve been swimming by moonlight. Eager to assess the logistics of swimming under the cover of darkness, we have discovered that it is an excellent option for those struggling to find time during the day. In fact, not only is it a practical solution to the limitations of the winter season, but it comes with additional thrills too! Fortunately for us, UK waters are much safer than those in other parts of the world, particularly when it comes to night-time predators. So, if you’re short on time, swimming by moonlight is worth considering.  Our moonlight sw ..read more

Words by Lydia Paleschi For many, wild swimming is a way of life, but it all starts with that first swim. If you have even the slightest interest in entering the water, we highly recommend that you give it a go. There’s a well-coined phrase by all wild swimmers – and the reason it’s easier to get in the more you go –  which is that “you never regret a swim!” I can confidently assure you that this is one hundred percent true.  This blog is for anyone with the slightest interest in getting in who hasn’t before and also for people that are considering swimming through winter who may n ..read more

Sponsored post As summer draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on our favourite swims of the season and all of the great memories we have made around the Cornish coastline. The weather may not have been the best this year, but it doesn’t mean the swims haven’t been. One of the great things about wild swimming is that whether it’s glorious sunshine, lashing with rain or even hailing, you never regret a swim! In fact, as much as we love calm seas and blue skies, there’s often a sense of fulfillment and achievement that comes with swimming in adverse conditions that you simply can’t get from f ..read more

Wild swimming provides us a means to connect with nature, benefitting our mental as well as our physical health. It gives us a way of ‘switching off’ and tuning into our natural outdoor surroundings to help us improve our stress levels, strengthen our minds and bodies, and boost our dopamine levels.  There are many charming locations throughout Cornwall for you to find your water and what better place to wild swim and stay, than this beautiful part of the country? Cornwall offers so much for a holiday in the UK, from scenic walks on the coast, to exploring historic landmarks and of cou ..read more

Wholesome World is a new app (approved by the NHS) that has launched to assist all of your nutritional and home health understanding, alongside pushing the awareness of authorised medicinal research. The app came about after founder, Freyja Hanstein, lost her husband to abdominal Synovial Sarcoma cancer in 2014 and she herself was diagnosed with a brain tumour the following year. In this blog, Freyja shares how the lifestyle app started, and how cold water swimming helped her along the way.  Growing up in Cornwall infiltrated the ocean into my soul. When landlocked, my mind feels anxio ..read more

We all hear about nutrition and how exercise and diet are necessities for living a healthy lifestyle, but how often do we hear about nutrition specifically for cold water swimming? Eating the correct food before and after a swim can have a huge impact on both performance and recovery – whether you’re a professional swimmer, or a more casual dipper. In this blog, we gain the expert opinion of Robbie Hudson, one of The Wild Swimming Brothers. Robbie has been cold water swimming with his brothers since childhood and they are well-seasoned in endurance swimming – including a nine day swim of ..read more

Words by Lydia Paleschi  This month, the BBC launched a new television programme, Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof. In it, the Dutch extreme athlete guides eight participants through a series of daunting, cold challenges designed to push their minds and bodies to the limit. Due to his own experiences, Wim Hof believes that embracing the cold has the ability to change anyone’s life for the better. In this blog, we learn more about how cold exposure has enabled him to advance scientific understanding of the human body. Plus, accomplish extraordinary feats of human endurance, including 21 Gui ..read more

We’d like to introduce you to Zee and Ant, whom we’ve entered into a creative collaboration with. The pair have been living in Cornwall for several years after working and traveling the world together. They are now supporting the Wild Swimming Cornwall project with their photography, which we think encapsulates the magic of wild swimming and showcases the beauty of the Cornish coastline. To learn more about the duo, read below. First up, a little bit about you both?  Ant: I’m a 33 year old from the UK’s South Coast. Since I was about 10, surfing has been the compass to most decisions I ..read more

In 2017, former BBC journalist Sophie Pierce’s life changed forever when her 20-year-old son Felix died suddenly and unexpectedly. Thrown into a new world of loss, she had to find a way to keep on living. In a series of letters to her son – composed during walks and swims taken close to his grave on The Green Hill in Devon – Sophie learns how to live in the landscape of sudden loss, navigating the weather and tides of grief. Sophie has since used some of these letters as the basis for her latest book The Green Hill: Letters to a son. In this blog, we learn more about the book and how Sophie ..read more