Our Swim-Sail trip with Strel Swim Adventures off the coast of Turkey was the most relaxing and exhilarating vacation we have experienced. Our expectations were exceeded on so many counts: quality of guides, fellow swimmers, boat accommodations, and the water we swam in. This article is written by our guest Dorothy from the USA. Quality…
Fancy something a bit different for your next best summer holiday? Here´s an idea. Why not trade crowded sands and salty seas for calm, sparkling waters and glorious mountain views? Picture this: sun-dappled lakes fringed by beautiful olde world towns, flanked by forests and overlooked by majestic mountain ranges. That´s the scene that awaits you…
This week we have been swimming in Kas, Turkey. You can see from our amazing drone footage how clear and beautiful the water is. Kaş is a small and unspoiled fishing village on the southern Turkish coastline just two hours' drive southeast of Fethiye (Dalaman) and three hours' drive southwest of Antalya. Some come for…
We had a great 2015 season and it was our first year running swimming trips in Southern Turkey. All went very well and we have doubled the number of trips for 2016 season. We were especially pleased with our swimming and sailing cruise trip in Turkey. Our inaugural trip went very smoothly and offered living…
For the last 4 events in a row we have been part of this unique cold water swimming event at Tooting Bec Lido in London. The event takes place every second year in January in this large open water lido - unheated pool. The size of the pool is 100 by 30 yards or 92…
Our guest from our Montenegro trip, Jane Mulderrig, has recently achieved a great extreme ice mile swimming feat. She swam 1 mile ice mile challenge in 31:26 min in the water temperature of 2.73C in the Harthill Reservoir near Sheffield, UK. Imagine swimming for a few minutes in this temperature in just your swimsuit, goggles…
During one of our swimming trips in Montenegro 2016, we were lucky and felt extremely privileged to meet Dusan Mandic, the son of our wonderful boat captain Budo. Dusan has played water polo for Serbia for several years and this past summer won his first olympic gold medal in Rio! He was visiting his family…
We have put together a great drone clip of the amazing swimming holiday locations where we operate. In the year of 2016 we did some amazing swimming adventure holiday trips in several locations including; Croatian Islands, Montenegro Fjords, Mediterranean Turkey, Slovenian Lakes, Greek Islands, Lake Powell Canyons in Arizona. 1) Croatian Islands: Bay of Silence,…
We had a fantastic time with amazing people from all over the world on our recent Swim and Sail Cruise trips. Our swimming and cruising journey route was in southern Turkey between Gocek and Kekova. On the way we stopped at Gemiler island (Blue Lagoon), Kalkan, Kas, Aperlai, the 5 islands in front of Greek…