Kate by the ocean 🐬

@purpleswimbunny

Retired music teacher, Cornwall, UK. Love bucketing around in a campervan & African travel. Deplore right wing ideology. Swim the occasional marathon & train a lot as an excuse to eat cake, watch F1 #44, & read. Atheist. No DMs, thanks.

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Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· 29d

Breathtakingly beautiful this morning. Perfect for an early swim. 😎😊🏊‍♀️ #openwaterswimming

Clear blue sea in a small bay, green headland on the left, with a small fort halfway down to the water. Short, dry grass in the foreground.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· 29d

Somebody loves grass. "I'll just stay here; you carry on walking." 😍

Golden retriever pup, attached to a red lead, lying blissfully in the middle of a grass verge, smiling.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Jul 12

From this morning's lovely, shady walk, before the heat set in. #Antonywoodlandgarden

Golden field in foreground with hay bales, sloping gently down to trees with ribbon of river in distance.

Looking across a hay field to a river, viaduct and fields in the distance.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Jun 21

Gorgeous morning at Cawsand. That 5k swim felt harder than it should have done, especially in such perfect conditions with 14C water. 🙄🤔🤦🏻‍♀️ #openwaterswimming

Small sailing boats stored along the foreshore of a gravel beach at high tide. It's sunny, with a few clouds, flat calm water and a lone kayak in the shallows.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Jun 20

On World Refugee Day it's fitting to share this powerful poem by Brian Bilston. #worldrefugeeday

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· May 30

After multiple jelly stings yesterday, including a full face plant, 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 I swam later today. The pesky things took themselves to the depths, out of the strong rays.Voilà! No stings. 2 sunny miles. 😊#openwaterswimming

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· May 8

Antony Passage from a granite bench in Antony Woodland Garden.

Tidal estuary with mudflats in foreground and wooded area across the water.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Apr 28

April tulips, Istanbul.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Apr 18

Nothing better than a beautiful morning swim with a good friend, followed by coffee in the sunshine. #openwaterswimming

Calm sea with a couple of boats on the beach in the foreground, a wooded peninsula tapering down to the water on the right, and a few clouds in a blue sky.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Apr 8

What a day to walk the Camel Trail. Timed it just right to catch the steam train leaving Boscarne Junction.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Apr 5

Local walk in a chilly breeze and bright sunshine. I love where I live.

Stone viaduct across a river, surrounded by rolling green fields, with Trematon Castle visible on the horizon.

Old grass causeway, edged by stone walls, with two field gates on either side of an ancient tree in the distance.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Apr 4

Last weekend, on a brief trip to St Malo, just to have lunch and swim in the sea pool...why not? Swam late morning and again late afternoon when the rising tide made it bouncy. 😂

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Mar 24

A film that traumatised me as a child.... especially as I had piano lessons.

Small boys, wearing blue caps decorated with large yellow hands, all sitting at the keyboard of a giant piano, . Still from the film, The 5,000 Fingers of Doctor T.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Mar 21

What a stunning morning for a swim...and the water was 10.6c.#openwaterswimming

Stony beach in front of flat calm water, on a blue sky day, small yacht at anchor and Drake's Island in the distance. Plymouth Sound.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Feb 4

I'm only sorry I can't find a smaller violin.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Oct 19

Evening, Rich.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Oct 16

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Sep 24

Put my new St Pirran's flag on the camper when we got home. Just a bit of fun, but blends well with a metallic grey van. 😂

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Sep 15

Horses, don't forget the horses!

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Sep 12

From News Thump, which provided all the background and proof with this.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Aug 8

Early morning at beautiful Cawsand. The sun disappeared behind grey clouds but we still swam for 4 hours. 😊🏊‍♀️ #outdoorswimmer #openwaterswimming #marathonswimming

Calm sea in early morning golden light, masts of small dinghies in the foreground.

View across calm sea towards Pier Cellars, Cawsand. Wavelets lapping onshore and several small dinghies stored on the beach in the foreground.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Jul 16

From the 8 mile Torbay swim, Saturday 12th July. It was a tad too hot for this marine mammal! #openwaterswimming #marathonswimming

Swimmer in the sea on a sunny day, doing front crawl past a rocky coastline.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Jul 4

Whitsand Bay looking stunning just after 7am this morning. Stopped to take photo on my way to a long swim at Cawsand, tracked in 2nd pic. 3 hrs of sunny bliss. 😊🏊‍♀️ #openwaterswimming #outdoorswimmer #marathonswimming

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· May 7

How strange. I was thinking just this on my walk this afternoon, when I took this.

Two paths through the woods, leading ahead on either side of a tree.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Apr 25

Album cover of Donald Fagen's The Nightfly, Fagen smoking a cigarette, in a radio studio, with a microphone and turntable, clock set at 4.10am.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Apr 9

Sunny Cornwall walk. 😊 #Cornwall #walking #gardens

Sun shining through trees on the foreshore of Antony Passage

Antony Passage from Antony woodland gardens. Fields and woods on the far bank, across the calm water.

Magnolia Serene in flower, amidst other bushes and trees and a path winding through lawns.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Mar 14

What a morning for a swim at Firestone Bay. Cold but beautiful. Very much appreciated the apricity today. 😊🏊🌅 #openwaterswimming #lovewhereyoulive #outdoorswimmer

Sparkling flat sea in early morning sunshine at Firestone Bay, Drake's Island in the distance. Tidal sea pool in the foreground.

Clear sea and rocky shoreline with headland in the distance.

Plymouth Sound from Firestone Bay. Early morning sunshine on the water. Drake's Island in silhouette in the background.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Mar 2

What a beautiful, sunny walk today. Birdsong aplenty and a couple of my favourite views, the bridges over the Tamar and Antony Passage from Jupiter Point. #cornwall #sundaywalks #torpointandrame

The Tamar Bridge and Brunel's rail bridge on a sunny day, taken across the fields from the Antony estate, with Dartmoor in the distance.

Antony Passage, across the river, with a lone swan in the foreground.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Feb 26

Shawshank.

Kate by the ocean 🐬@purpleswimbunny· Feb 23

Have a viaduct.