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OW swimming locations

  • 24-05-2010 4:43pm
    #1
    kingQuez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks, anyone know of any appropriate lakes to swim in near Dublin? I've a triathlon coming up with a lake-based swim and would like to see if there's anything much different than sea/river swims (hopefully less current makes it easier :D). Cheers!


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  • #2
    deniseve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭deniseve


    kingQuez wrote: »
    Hi Folks, anyone know of any appropriate lakes to swim in near Dublin? I've a triathlon coming up with a lake-based swim and would like to see if there's anything much different than sea/river swims (hopefully less current makes it easier :D). Cheers!

    I usually swim out from Sandycove beach to a black buoy with a white tip and back in again. I think that it is an 800m swim but it could be longer. Plenty of jellyfish there at the moment but have had any stings so far.


  • #3
    conradk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭conradk


    I swim in the Grand Canal dock regularly in the summer. Despite its initial appearance it's actually reasonably clean (I wouldn't go touching the bottom though - metres of sediment and god knows what). The dock is supplied by the canal, which is mostly river and rain water.

    If you climb in at the new theatre you can do a nice straight swim down to the Ringsend end of the dock, it's about 500m. It's extremely quiet, the only things you'll encounter are the local kids on hot days and the odd Viking Splash 'Duck' with bemused stares from its passengers...


  • #4
    TomD101
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    conradk wrote: »
    I swim in the Grand Canal dock regularly in the summer. Despite its initial appearance it's actually reasonably clean (I wouldn't go touching the bottom though - metres of sediment and god knows what). The dock is supplied by the canal, which is mostly river and rain water.

    If you climb in at the new theatre you can do a nice straight swim down to the Ringsend end of the dock, it's about 500m. It's extremely quiet, the only things you'll encounter are the local kids on hot days and the odd Viking Splash 'Duck' with bemused stares from its passengers...


    I was thinking of hopping in there at the weekend for a swim but it looks nasty! Think I'll chance it anyway, might be better once you're in it. Is the water cold?


  • #5
    conradk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭conradk


    It's definitely a case of it being fine once you are in.. I agree that it looks a bit nasty and the fact that you are in a industrial-urban landscape makes it a bit unnerving at first but honestly the water is fine, visibility is about 2-3 metres (which is actually better than the sea around Dublin) and there's very little debris etc in the water.

    Regarding temperature, it's quite a bit warmer than the sea, at least that's the case when I get in during the summer, I'd imagine that in the winter it actually gets colder than the sea.... It's definitely wetsuit territory....

    There a couple of ladders to climb down with at the theater end of the dock, as I was saying earlier just stay off the dock-bed, there's a thick layer of sediment concealing 200 odd years of god knows what!


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