The Christmas Day Swim

This year we were quite a big group with sisters, friends, nieces, a boyfriend and the dogs, which was just as well because the day's weather was drear!
Many conversations, swim-suited bodies, woolly hats, wet-haired dogs shaking water and grit in equal ecstatic quantities, random biscuits being handed round to all and sundry by another family group,  created a carnival atmosphere. Yes, of course the water was cold and no, we did not stay in for long, but as usual we all felt invigorated, if slightly overwhelmed by R's scarily lifelike crocodile impressions.  Nothing that a brisk walk back couldn't cure though.
And, it certainly gives a good appetite for the evening's amazing Christmas dinner.

(This is not my photo - but as we were all taking the same sorts of rather chaotic views I am not repentant.)