Swim the Door (20)19

Forget March 29th….. (and April 12th….. October 31st) which some people seem to think are important dates in 2019, as the only ones you really should remember is June 7th-10th for this years Swim the Door…………..

Attendees

BACK ROW: Unknown toddler, Deby, Courtney, Zoe, SLC, Mark, Russell, Graham, Sandra, Ron, Richard, Louise.

FRONT ROW:  Daryl, Jono, Julia, Chloe, Luke, Emily, Daisy, Jan.

PRESENT BUT NOT THIS BEACH: Jonny

BEHIND THE CAMERA: Digger

STILL ON WAY (or lost): Lorna

 

Spot the difference competition

 

The “big” swim

The start

 

Nearly everyone in (Note. the boats on the left are not the “official” rescue crafts)

 

Everyone in (bar Luke and his inflatable)

 

Going well

 

The main group of swimmers

 

The Door is in sight

 

The first swimmers start the anti-clockwise movement

 

Hurrah. The first swimmers are about to come through The Door

 

Traditional pose under the door (with unknown persons leg)

 

On the way back

 

The swimmers

Chloe and Emily (also known as “the children of the door”)

 

Digger (also known as “father of the Door”)

 

Luke (Godchild of the “father of the Door”)

 

Russell (a “Dorset-based veteran of STD” as demonstrated by this action photo)

 

Emily (as known as “The smiley young veteran”)

 

Mark and Zoe (also known as the “Dancers of the Door”)

 

Ron and Jono in synchronised breathing mode

 

Sandra and Zoe (also known as “adult smileys of the Door”)

 

Zoe (with this years rescue craft)

 

Maya (SLC), Courtney and Deby (also known as “Spoon Girls of the Door”)

 

Spoon Girls minus one

 

This photo is believed to show the first Spoon ever to Swim the Door

 

Non-swimming activities

Traditional smokey barbee

 

Zoe in charge of circulating the smoke

 

People pointing at food supplied by Helen (queen of the barbee food and much missed over the last three years)

 

Gin O’Clock

 

Candle/firework O’Clock

 

Burning alcohol O’Clock

 

Other swims

The swimmers at Lulworth (not how far JC has got before anyone else enters the water)

 

Lulworth Cove swimmers- Mark, JC and Digger

 

Lulworth Cover swimmers- Chloe, Emily, Mark and Digger

 

Swim and beach near Tynham

 

 

 

 

All details subject to change and inaccuracies due to old age or because that’s the way it is. See T&C for further details.