Greeting to all Post Solstice Pagans,
For everyone who missed seeing the sun rise on the Solstice it is
now the meteorological season of summer - really.
Thanks to Adam, another double swim weekend, with a camp at our new
favourite location, Carmel College, is scheduled for the weekend of
Saturday 30th June - Sunday 01st July.
And as compensation for the disappointing Solstice there will be an
- almost - full moon to howl at.
You're welcome to come to either or both swims and camp or not as
you feel inclined. The camp site does not have any facilities, bar
access to a loo, so please come prepared for a degree of self
sufficiency. We will be barbecuing on Saturday night so bring food
and drink for yourselves and/or to share. The camp site is on the
river and we hope - weather permitting - to have an evening
dip/midnight swim by the light of the moon. The camp site is also
the Saturday egress and Sunday ingress point for the swims.
Please let me know if you intend to camp. (You may want to
arrive early to pitch tents before the swim and will need directions
to the pitches.) (There is also a possibility for a Friday and/or
Sunday camp for those that might want to do catch up swims.)
Saturday 30th June 2:00pm Carmel College - Shillingford
to Carmel - 4.83km (Approximately swim 39 and 40 in the I
♥ the Thames book)
We will meet at Carmel College on the hard standing (Where we
rendezvoused for the last camp) at the point indicated by the green
arrow (OS 461052,187668) at 2pm:
http://goo.gl/maps/0NUl
Please approach Carmel College along the road marked on Google maps
as Constitution Hill. This is the turning off the A4074 Oxford to
Reading road just before/after the B4009 turning to Goring.
We will then shuttle up to the bus stop opposite the Benson Cafe and
depart from there at 2:30pm for a 1km walk to the Shillingford entry
point:
http://goo.gl/maps/6H0B
The exit point is at the camp site near the old boat House:
http://goo.gl/maps/8Ek8
Sunday 1st July 9:30am Carmel College - Carmel to South
Stoke - 4.74km (Approximately swim 41 and 42 in the I ♥
the Thames book)
Non campers meet at Carmel College on the hard standing (Where we
rendezvoused for the last camp) at the point indicated by the green
arrow (OS 461052,187668) at 9:30am (Same as Saturday):
http://goo.gl/maps/0NUl
Please approach Carmel College along the road marked on Google maps
as Constitution Hill. This is the turning off the A4074 Oxford to
Reading road just before/after the B4009 turning to Goring.
You will be met and guided to the camp site where we will enter the
water at 10am near the old Boat House:
http://goo.gl/maps/8Ek8
Dry changing kit will be shuttled down to the exit point.
We will swim down to South Stoke and get out at the the slipway:
http://goo.gl/maps/cKDp
Where we will repair to the Perch and Pike for lunch. http://www.perchandpike.co.uk
Note: The later start on Saturday, after lunch, is to allow
peeps to do a Saturday morning catch up swim and the early start on
Sunday to allow peeps to do a Sunday afternoon catch up, if they
would like to.
Adam, Sef and Jeremy and the Perchies and Pikies of the Thames
OSS swim
responsibility statement:
By attending
you confirm that you are a member of the OSS and have read and
accepted the OSS swim responsibility statement:
All swimmers
swim at their own risk.