In Stockholm, you can swim in most of the city center - except where the large ship lanes are. Thousands of people out swimming on a hot summers day.
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#32Interesting to see Sydney Water put their sponsorship near the top of this. So much of Sydney including its larger rivers and waterholes are swimmable. Even our unique (but not very well known) ocean pools make many of our more dangerous surf beaches accessible.
》Even our unique (but not very well known) ocean pools make many of our more dangerous surf beaches accessible. What do you mean?
"Ocean pools" in Australia are large pools, often square or rectangular regular swimming pool shaped, that are set next to the ocean at sea level and can be connected or pump filled (ie tidal or permanent level).
It's sea water, but without the sharks, wave action, rip currents, jelly fish, Bondi cigar's. etc
Here are some in Sydney: https://oceanswims.com/lifestyle/5-of-the-best-ocean-pools-i...
Variations exist all around Australia.
The N'West has Dampier's Shark Cage Beach - not a rock pool but a large steel fence enclosed swimming area to keep the sharks and the shark snacks seperated.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
》Even our unique (but not very well known) ocean pools make many of our more dangerous surf beaches accessible. What do you mean?
"Ocean pools" in Australia are large pools, often square or rectangular regular swimming pool shaped, that are set next to the ocean at sea level and can be connected or pump filled (ie tidal or permanent level). It's sea water, but without the sharks, wave action, rip currents, jelly fish, Bondi cigar's. etc Here are some in Sydney: https://oceanswims.com/lifestyle/5-of-the-best-ocean-pools-i... Variations exist all…
I lived in Burleigh Heads for four years. I just didn't catch what you meant. Dumb me left and now I am stuck in the nordics, mortgage, wife and kids.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you guess that? The sentence includes both "safe" and "healthy"; the latter is redundant on your guess about the former. This is basic reading comprehension really.
A lake can be unsafe for people to swim in yet have a healthy ecosystem and vice versa. Or, if your reading is correct, redundancy might be an aesthetic choice.
> yet have a healthy ecosystem
Interpreting "healthy" as "healthy ecosystem" doesn't really make sense in the context of an initiative focused on people being able to swim.
This thread gives me the vibes of arguing for the sake of arguing. The first point mentions "safe" and "healthy", of course this initiative cares about both good water quality and safety from drowning, because those are quite important things for people wanting to swim.
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#35I was in Basel last summer. The Rhine splits the city in two, and all along it's shore is a boulevard / terrace / stairs to the water, and it felt like the whole city was swimming in it along the entire length.
Some people even swim to get to work. With little waterproof floating bags for their clothes. Thats quite something.
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#36American living in Copenhagen here. We check all of these boxes. The entire channel that runs through town is swimmable thanks to decades of work cleaning it up. On a warm summer day, you could expect maybe 1000+ swimmers in the water in the city centre across all the locations. We also do Vinterbadere (Winter Bathing) throughout the year. The only time you can't swim is after a day or two of sustained rain and there…
It's just fun/sad reading about the concept of "swimmable cities" when you've taken it for granted all your life. Most cities with fjords or channels here, have "harbour baths" - essentially outdoor swimming facilities with springboards and tanning beds. Would have thought these existed elsewhere.
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#37In Stockholm, you can swim in most of the city center - except where the large ship lanes are. Thousands of people out swimming on a hot summers day.
I have some questions on this.
Living on west coast of Sweden, our family went to Stockholm this summer and as the temperature rose, we asked were to go and swim and basically no one knew and we didn’t see people doing it either.
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#38I was expecting something related to Seasteading before clicking the link. Anyone else?
I just spent some time in Basel, so I thought they'd mention about how the locals go for a dip after work with their wickelfisch and float downstream back home
Or to work if your home is upstream.
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#39American living in Copenhagen here. We check all of these boxes. The entire channel that runs through town is swimmable thanks to decades of work cleaning it up. On a warm summer day, you could expect maybe 1000+ swimmers in the water in the city centre across all the locations. We also do Vinterbadere (Winter Bathing) throughout the year. The only time you can't swim is after a day or two of sustained rain and there…
Why you can't swim after the rain? Does the water get dirty, or else?
It can cause overflow from flooding sewer drains, which runs off into the canals. If that happens you'll want to wait a day or two for it to clear up.
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#40I was in Basel last summer. The Rhine splits the city in two, and all along it's shore is a boulevard / terrace / stairs to the water, and it felt like the whole city was swimming in it along the entire length.
Some people even swim to get to work. With little waterproof floating bags for their clothes. Thats quite something.
What a fun summertime commute! It never occurred to me to use it as transport instead of just working out :)