Boxing Day Dip.

The early morning cloud layer soon dispersed to give almost perfect weather for the traditional Boxing Day Dip at midday.

Last year I was just a spectator but today felt quite warm in the sun. I decided that today was a good day to actually take part in the event. I'll have to see what the weather is like for the New Year's Day Dip before joining in with that.

I'd been keeping an eye on the beach which had been looking fairly empty but we went down anyway only to find that suddenly there were crowds of people arriving for the event which is a fund raiser for Amnesty. Our next door neighbours also turned up having driven down from their home in Shropshire especially for the event.

Suddenly a shout went out for everyone to line up for a photo so down we went. (I'm behind the lass hugging the chap next to her even though that looks like it's me.)

And then in we went. Di from next door encouraged me to keep running as we hit the cool water and we made our way to where the breaking waves were chest high. We very bravely swam a couple of strokes and then headed straight back to the shore where our support teams (Di's family and Peter) were waiting with towels etc. I'd brought a towelling dressing gown as there's not a lot of point in me buying a Dri-robe which is current fad with the swimmers and surfers since I don't go in the water very often.

After a hot shower and soup I did the next lot of ironing before having a rest in front of the tv.

Just found this video of the dip. Peter comes into view at 30 secs and the keen eyed might spot me at 51 secs.