2024 EVENTS
Our events for 2024 including swimming,
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Wild West Wight Swim Safari Days
May 10th-12th Foraging and Yoga with Swimming Weekend
May 24th-26th Yoga Retreat with Sea Swimming
June 21st-23rd Summer Solstice Retreat: includes Golden Yoga and a sea swim
July 26th-28th Sea Swimming and Yoga Weekend
August 22nd-25th Sea Swimming and Yoga Weekend
September 13th-15th Yoga, Swimming and Creative Writing Weekend
September 27th-29th Sea Swimming and Yoga Weekend
October 4th-6th Yoga Retreat with Sea Swimming
Please contact us to discuss a bespoke swim weekend for 2024 or 2025
iconicswims@gmail.com
Join us at our country home for a weekend packed full of swimming adventures. Nestled in the heart of the New Forest, yet only a few miles from the sea, this will be your base for a weekend of South Coast sea swimming.
We cater for most levels and abilities, but we ask everyone joining to make sure they are comfortable about immersion for 20 minutes in water within the temperature range 15-20 Celsius, that they can tread water for longer than 2 minutes and swim continuously over a distance of 500m
Example swim itinerary 1 (introduction)
Friday afternoon
Hordle Cliff beach (0.5-1km)
Saturday morning
Paddy’s Gap to Milford-on-Sea (1km)
Saturday afternoon
Hike to Hurst (1km)
Sunday morning
Taddiford Gap (1.5km)
Example swim itinerary 2 (intermediate)
Friday afternoon
Hordle Cliff (1-2km)
Saturday morning
Swim to the Lighthouse (2km) or boat trip
Saturday afternoon
Milford-on-Sea to Hordle Cliff (2km) or boat trip
Sunday morning
Barton-on-Sea to Milford-on-Sea (4km tidal assisted, with breaks)
South Devon swimming retreat:
September 6-8th 2024
Perched on a clifftop in the South Hams with commanding views across the English Channel to Eddystone Rock and only a short walk from some of the most iconic swimming on the South Coast, Battisborough House is the perfect base for a truly unforgettable swimming safari. Just minutes from the house you can experience some of the wildest and most beautiful sea swimming experiences in the British Isles. The Erme Estuary is referenced in Roger Deakin’s Waterlog.
Price: from £400 per person for two nights
Find out more about Battisborough House
To book your places, please email us at iconicswims@gmail.com
Example swim itinerary 1 (gentler swimming)
Friday afternoon
Meadowsfoot Beach, Mothecombe (0.5-1km)
Saturday morning
Explore around Bugle Hole (1km)
Saturday afternoon
Erme Estuary swoosh (1km)
Sunday morning
Round Burgh Island (1.5km)
Example swim itinerary 2 (energetic swimming)
Friday afternoon
Meadowsfoot Beach, Mothecombe (1-2km)
Saturday morning
Bugle Hole to Erme Estuary (2km)
Saturday afternoon
Erme Estuary swoosh (2km)
Sunday morning
Avon Swoosh (7km tidal assisted, with breaks)
Private group swimming retreats
Let us help you put together your perfect swimming break in one of our retreat venues. We can arrange lifeguards, guides, pilot vessels and advise on possible swim itineraries to ensure you have a genuinely memorable Iconic Swimming weekend.