Beatrice Kerr Australia’s Champion Lady Swimmer & Diver
Beatrice Kerr was a swimmer and aquatic performer originally from Albert Park in Victoria. “By the bye, everyone rushes after lunch to the Palace Pier to see a young Australian…
Cold water River Suir Swimmers
It never ceases to delight me to hear other cold-water swimmers describe their experience of cold-water swimming. It's almost as if the longer you experience these delights, the epiphanies in…
Swimming made easy for women
On the 3rd of March in 1876 a Sydney Illustrated News article titled "Swimming made easy for women" suggests that the first step in swimming is to "Wet the head…
Double Dip
The Brighton Icebergers know it as a 'Double Dip'. It works like this; Cool down in your normal brisk swim, twenty minutes in and you've already gained a hypothermic grin.…