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Scotland Outdoors

The Joy of Outdoor Swimming with Calum Maclean

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Helen Needham chats and swims with Calum Maclean in a Perthshire loch.

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:36.2

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0:45.0

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this podcast. I'm Helen Needham.

0:50.2

One of my most favourite things to do is to go for a dip in a river, loch or sometimes the sea.

0:56.4

For me it's a total reset, a pleasurable and sometimes challenging way to wash away the day and become fully happy within myself.

1:05.4

Callan MacLean is a well-known advocate of outdoor swimming here in Scotland.

1:10.0

He's made films about his adventures and now he's

1:12.5

published a book called 1001 Outdoor Swimming Tips. I recently met up with them to have a chat

1:19.1

and a swim at the Loch of Clooney near Blair Gowery in Pershire, a beautiful calm loch tucked

1:25.6

away in the hills and surrounded by trees.

1:28.5

There's been a bit of a wild swimming craze in recent years,

1:32.0

but it's a term I'm not totally comfortable with, I must admit.

1:35.5

I'd rather just call it swimming outside.

1:37.8

But what does Callum think?

1:39.5

So I used to get a bit annoyed by the term wild swimming.

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