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NURTURE NATURE

Rowan Clarke meets the outdoor swimmers who give back to their swim spots
Image: Roger Taylor Photography

Swimming outdoors gives us huge health and wellbeing benefits. But the way that we connect with the environment in which we immerse ourselves is critical. More than ensuring that we don’t negatively impact our swim spots, we need to nurture a reciprocal relationship with them. In other words, we can’t go into the sea and expect it to make us feel better without understanding, loving and caring for it.

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