The Suffolk County Department of Health Services has closed a Southold lake to swimming due to unacceptably high levels of bacteria in the water, according to a press release. READ
Tag: Swimming
Not long ago, I was scrolling through my Facebook news feed when I came across a photo of my year-old niece attending her first swimming lesson.
“Aww, that’s cute,” I thought. “But can a baby really be taught how to swim?” READ
Swimmers switched in the relay by giving one another a mandatory high-five. (Credit: Courtesy)
While many opt to celebrate their birthday on the water, no one does it quite like Laurie Olinder of Riverhead.
For the past five years around her birthday, she and husband Bill Morrison have joined family members taking turns to swim the more than 20-mile distance from Mattituck Inlet to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Connecticut.
Joan Archard successfully reaches shore after swimming from Greenport to Shelter Island and back Saturday morning. (Credit: Claire Leaden)
She did it.
Joan Archard of Patchogue accomplished her goal of swimming from Greenport to Shelter Island (and back again) this morning.
Joan Archard of Patchogue holds up her wetsuit Tuesday near Great South Bay, where she’s been practicing for this weekend’s swim from Greenport to Shelter Island (and maybe back). (Credit: Courtesy photo)
The matriarch of the family — good old granny — always leaves a certain legacy behind. Whether it’s her perfect chocolate-chip cookie recipe or the slightly off-kilter jokes she made, grandmas are known to pass down fond memories.
This summer, Joan Archard of Patchogue is paying homage to her own grandmother’s less conventional achievements through a feat of athleticism to be attempted in Greenport.
Well, off Greenport. (more…)