In the thirty minutes before someone gets into trouble, a certain kind of silence descends upon a British beach. Nothing…
Browsing: Swimming
A beginner eventually stops fighting the water, usually around the third or fourth lesson. It doesn’t occur all at once.…
There’s a certain noise that beach towns make in late June, a combination of car doors slamming, kids yelling, and…
A swimming pool can never quite match the sound that a lake makes at six in the morning. It’s not…
When a toddler strays too close to a pool’s edge, parents experience a specific type of panic. The flotation device…
Before seven in the morning, there’s a certain silence at a swimming pool. No one has yet to disturb the…
When the dragonflies emerge and the water turns the color of strong tea in the early evening, a certain kind…
There does not appear to be any danger from the river at Wellingborough. It’s easy to understand why a group…
One sound that swimmers in pools never hear is the wind blowing across open water right before you enter. It’s…
On the hottest days of the year, standing at the edge of a lake or a slow-moving river, certain that…