crazyamazingnaked

During my stay in Ardfern, I've developed quite a liking for swimming in Scottish lochs. Or swimming in lochs, seas, rivers, anything, really...
It all started with our little local loch Ardlarach which we occasionally visited with my crazy co-worker Sarah (who had never swum outdoors before). It had a road trimmed with blackberries leading to it, a life ring, an overhanging tree to jump off from, additional surprises in a form of floating dead sheep etc., perfect! By the end of August though, as the temperatures started to drop and the road to the loch seemed to grow longer and longer each day, no-one really felt like coming with me anymore except occasional guys from the pub who thought going swimming with me would be an excellent next step towards picking me up.. :P haha.

Anyway, as it happened, on the third or fourth day of September I talked about my love for swimming with my (ex boy-)friend Martin, mentioning that I had swum in that loch every day of that month so far. So we made a bet and I started taking pictures of my daily trips down to the loch.
Pretty soon, as the weather and the water went colder and colder, even the most adventurous people I met thought the price of dipping themselves into cold water to be too much to pay for the company of a crazy pretty eastern-european girl.. :P In other words, I was to walk down to the loch and back all alone every single day... I found a way to combine my trips with eating loads of blackberries and listening to motivational audio books..









Quite quickly I became known in Ardfern as „the crazy girl who goes swimming in that freezing loch every day“, to be honest I might have helped the rumour a bit by telling everyone about it myself :P
And I was quite proud of myself - I took trips down to the loch early in the morning as well as late in the evening just after my shift, borrowed a bike from a friend once when I only had 30 minutes left before work; jumped off a sailing boat in heavy rain, ended up getting home completely wet on another rainy day, took a kitchen probe down once to find the water temperature to be around 12 degrees celsius (experiments under running cold tap water showed that it is warmer to take a cold bath in the Galley)...

great fun!

Loch Ardlarach, September


Morar, October


Loch Ness, December