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ELLEN HIMELFARB

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 1:39 PM EST 09/09/08

Forget marathons. For a new breed of recreational athletes, the ultimate summer getaway is a swim vacation — where guides help them navigate waters from the Virgin Islands to the Thames. Ellen Himelfarb dives in ...Read the full article

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  1. Jack Rip from Vancouver, Canada writes: This is great phenomenon ... I myself own a BlueSeventy openwater race wetsuit. I was a triathlon novice and was intrigued by their mottos:

    "The Earth is 70 percent water, the water is open",

    I love exlporing the living waters of BC in a wetsuit, coming up silently on or drifting by fish, birds and other aquatic and marine wildlife. Of course,you are always keepng an eye and ear out for power boats.
  2. right elbow from RIZAL BEACH, Canada writes: Vacation and travel to Rizal Beach is always number 1 in my list.

    http://www.waypoints.ph/detail_gen.html?wpt=gubatb
    near that near-perfect cone of a volcan & majestic Mt. Mayon!

    picture MAYON:
    www.panoramio.com/photo/3560330
    http://www.panoramio.com/photo/808850
  3. Alistair McLaughlin from Canada writes: "After a day of swimming past grazing cattle, herds of sheep and the magnificent Kelmscott Manor... the group was buzzing as we hit the pub for celebratory tipples and some carbs."

    Herds of sheep swimming past herds of sheep. Must have been quite the scene.
  4. Steve Bradley from Casselman, Canada writes: Jack Rip -
    Congratulations on your wetsuit, and many happy returns in exploring the wondrous 70%. Along with power boats, however, beware of addled animals. Last year I was enjoying a swim in the St.Lawrence when I was thunked upside the head. i initially thouhgt in was maybe a rogue breaker, and then I remembered that the water was practically glassy. So, I stopped and looked around, and there, about ten feet behind me, was an idotic cormorant. Stupid bird! I like to think it looked quite dazed itself.....but I think it just looked as dopey as all cormorants look naturally. I spent the rest of the swim worrying that it would nail me again, perhaps figuring I was some sort of threat to its "turf", but nothing else happened. And here's a poem by Ogden Nash (or maybe Christopher Isherwood):

    "The common cormorant, or shag,
    Lays eggs inside a paper bag.
    The reason you should see, no doubt,
    It is to keep the lightning out.

    But what these unobservant birds
    Have never noticed is that herds
    Of wandering bears may come with buns
    And steal the bags to hold their crumbs."
  5. Gary Emich from United States writes: And there is yet one more company offering swimming vacations - Baja Expeditions of La Paz Mexico is offering two 1-week open water swimming expeditions in October, 2008 and again in October, 2009. www.bajaex.com

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