24th August 2014
Me and my Friend Joe Coy arrived in Blackpool for 9am for the Blackpool Pier to Pier swim, which is a group of friends meet once a Year to swim in the Sea and then go to a Café after the swim and have a Breakfast. My Friend Nick White organised this swim and we all had a lot of fun doing this swim. before the swim started me a.nd Joe Coy had to walk from North Pier to the South Pier for the start of the Pier to Pier swim. We where mean't to have got on a Tram at North Pier and then get off at the south pier, but no trams came so we had to walk down Blackpool Promenade to the start of the swim. We arrived at the South Pier with 10 minutes to spare before the swim started at 10:30am. At 10:30am 8 of us made our way through the waves and into deeper water to start the swim. Once we were all past the swell of the waves we then started swimming towards the Central Pier and i swum at a good pace. I swum under the Central Pier and then i got caught up in a Rip current and found i wasn't swimming forward and i spent a good 5 or 10 minutes fighting to get out of the rip current. I finally got out of the rip current and then swum towards South Pier and then swum under the South Pier and to the finish Slipway just after the South Pier near the Beach Patrol Outpost. I really enjoyed this Blackpool swim and after the swim we went to the "Promenade Café" for Breakfast. In the "Promenade Café" they had about 30 Clocks on the Wall and wondered how long it took the Café staff to change the Clock times when the Clocks go forward or Backwards. After the nice Breakfast me and Joe Coy said our Goodbye's to the other swimmers and then we set off back to St Helens where Joe Lives, i had met up with Joe Coy at St Helens and we went to Blackpool in his Eco friendly Ford Focus.
Me and my Friend Joe Coy arrived in Blackpool for 9am for the Blackpool Pier to Pier swim, which is a group of friends meet once a Year to swim in the Sea and then go to a Café after the swim and have a Breakfast. My Friend Nick White organised this swim and we all had a lot of fun doing this swim. before the swim started me a.nd Joe Coy had to walk from North Pier to the South Pier for the start of the Pier to Pier swim. We where mean't to have got on a Tram at North Pier and then get off at the south pier, but no trams came so we had to walk down Blackpool Promenade to the start of the swim. We arrived at the South Pier with 10 minutes to spare before the swim started at 10:30am. At 10:30am 8 of us made our way through the waves and into deeper water to start the swim. Once we were all past the swell of the waves we then started swimming towards the Central Pier and i swum at a good pace. I swum under the Central Pier and then i got caught up in a Rip current and found i wasn't swimming forward and i spent a good 5 or 10 minutes fighting to get out of the rip current. I finally got out of the rip current and then swum towards South Pier and then swum under the South Pier and to the finish Slipway just after the South Pier near the Beach Patrol Outpost. I really enjoyed this Blackpool swim and after the swim we went to the "Promenade Café" for Breakfast. In the "Promenade Café" they had about 30 Clocks on the Wall and wondered how long it took the Café staff to change the Clock times when the Clocks go forward or Backwards. After the nice Breakfast me and Joe Coy said our Goodbye's to the other swimmers and then we set off back to St Helens where Joe Lives, i had met up with Joe Coy at St Helens and we went to Blackpool in his Eco friendly Ford Focus.
