Salty Swims

16/11/2025

More Free stuff from our friend at Creative Threads Cornwall CIC follow the link to book ❤️ 🧶

FREE Beginners Crochet Workshop

Join us for a friendly and relaxed introduction to crochet. In this beginner focused class, you’ll learn all the basics from how to comfortably hold your hook and yarn, to creating foundational stitches such as the single crochet and double crochet. Whether you’ve never picked up a hook before or just need a confidence boost, this workshop will guide you step-by-step and leave you ready to start your own simple projects. This is a FREE workshop all we ask is for you to purchase a tea/coffee cake in the session to support the Community Centre. Please bring a hook and some yarn if you have them, if not they will be provided for use in the class.

FREE Beginners Crochet Workshop Join us for a friendly and relaxed introduction to crochet. In this beginner focused class, you’ll learn all the basics from how to comfortably hold your hook and yarn, to creating foundational stitches such as the single crochet and double crochet. Whether you’ve...

11/11/2025

💃 MOVE TOGETHER – Dance Sessions for Women Affected by Cancer in
ST AUSTELL it’s FREE and started on the 1st October 2025 but you can still join!!

“A sense of joy and freedom that’s exhilarating”
That’s how one participant described MOVE TOGETHER

Join them for creative, nourishing, supportive and SO much fun dance sessions designed especially for women affected by cancer. No experience needed, just a willingness to move, connect, and feel good in your body.

🗓 Wednesdays 10.30–12.30 (excluding school holidays)
📍 Studio 4, Old Vicarage Place, St Austell PL25 5YY
💌 To book or find out more:
📞 07939 167526
📧 info@dancecentred.co.uk
🌐 dancecentred.co.uk

Come as you are. Leave with a lighter heart.

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DanceCentred

04/11/2025

🌊✨ Community, Creativity & Cornwall ✨🌊

At Salty Swims, we create community through the sea, and we’re proud to support another community creating organisation: Creative Threads Cornwall CIC. This new CIC is weaving creativity, wellbeing, and inclusion right here in Cornwall.

🧵 What they do:
Through stitching, making, and shared projects, they bring people together to celebrate Cornwall’s spirit, coastline, and community. It’s about more than fabric, it’s about connection, confidence, and belonging.

✍️ Right now:
They’re applying for funding to deliver free creative workshops across Cornwall, opening doors for people of all ages, especially those who often miss out due to cost or transport barriers. With support, they’ll reach coastal towns, villages, and communities right across the county.

💙 Why we’re backing them:
Creativity heals, just like salt water does. They’re creating safe, welcoming spaces where everyone has a voice. They’re rooted in Cornwall’s culture and community spirit.

💡 How you can help:
Alongside funding bids, Creative Threads Cornwall CIC have set up a donate button and an online shop. Everything in the shop is made with reuse, recycle, and sustainability in mind, so every purchase supports the planet as well as free, inclusive workshops.

🚀 Take Action
Donate by tapping the button in their website. Shop handmade, sustainable pieces that will fuel free workshops. Share their story so more people hear about the creative tide rising in Cornwall.

Together, we can stitch stronger communities and keep creativity free and accessible for everyone. 🌊🧵

Join us to celebrate creativity and community in Cornwall.

02/11/2025

As the water temperature plummets we’re all going to experience Cold Water Shock!

Your Heart’s Racing And It Isn’t Just Excitement 🧊💓

Ever jumped into cold water and felt your heart hammer like it’s trying to escape your chest? That’s not just adrenaline, it’s cold water shock.

When you hit water below 15°C (and let’s face it, that’s most of the year in Cornwall), your body reacts fast:

• 🫁 You gasp involuntarily, not ideal if your head’s underwater.
• 💓 Your heart rate spikes as blood vessels constrict.
• 🧠 You might feel panicked, breathless, or disoriented.

This isn’t weakness. It’s biology.

Cold water shock can increase your heart rate by 50–100% in seconds. For some, that’s exhilarating. For others, especially those with heart conditions, it’s dangerous.

All our coaches are acclimatised winter swimmers. As the heat rate below shows even acclimatised your heart rate will massively increase!

So what helps?

• ✅ Acclimatise gradually, don’t dive in.
• 🧘‍♀️ Control your breathing before and during immersion..
• 🧍‍♀️ Stay upright and calm until your breathing settles.

Swimming in cold water can be life affirming, but only if you respect what your body’s telling you. That racing heart? It’s not just thrill, it’s a survival response.

Let’s keep it safe, inclusive, and empowering, one chilly dip at a time.

02/11/2025

Another beautiful sunrise and a beach full of swimmers this morning ❤️

01/11/2025

Not a soul here! It’s been a long long time since I had the beach to myself ❤️🌊🏊🏼‍♂️🌊❤️ sat on the shore having a cuppa and watching the waves ❤️

25/10/2025

Training these guys to swim with us and Sea Swim Cornwall next week around St Michael’s Mount .
We had fantastic conditions for an evening swim, they’re not used to wetsuits so this was all a learning curve for them and they did fabulously ❤️❤️🌊🏊🏼‍♂️🌊 🌈

24/10/2025

The rain stayed away and we had a great morning in Penzance today ❤️

Spot the swimmer in the harbour, no float no safety and hard to see. 🏊🏼‍♂️🏊🏻🔎❌

We never swim in the harbour as it’s really difficult for boats to see swimmers, we swim in safer spots. ⛴️ 🚤 🛑 ✋

22/10/2025

Here we are supporting Surfers Against Sewage, nothing stops these intrepid and committed dip a day participants!

19/10/2025

It’s that time of year again!

❄️ Winter is creeping in, and the sea’s starting to bite.

As the air and water temperatures drop, it’s more important than ever to be mindful of how long we spend in the water. There’s no “one size fits all” here, what works for one swimmer could be risky for another.

Your safe swim time depends on:
• 🧍 Body composition
• 🏊 Experience and cold adaptation
• 🌊 Water temperature (and wind chill!)

If you’re ever in doubt, get out ‼️‼️

We all need to stay alert to the signs of hypothermia: shivering, slurred speech, clumsiness, confusion, and fatigue.

Let’s look after ourselves and each other out there. Cold water can be magic, but only when we respect its limits.