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Swim With Us!
Do you organize public open water swims in your area? Let us know and we'll post it here!
Santa Barbara
Oceanducks, see below.
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Orange County
OCOpenWaterSwims (Google Group) is dedicated to publicizing open water swim practices and events in Orange County and surrounding areas. They generally swim at Oak Street every Saturday year round (water quality permitting). |
San Francisco Bay
Swim-art.com and www.waterworldswim.com offer open water swimming programs
in the San Francisco Bay. |
Santa Barbara
| There is a group of Santa Barbara swimmers known as the OceanDucks who meet for regular swims and other events throughout the year in Santa Barbara and Goleta. These are informal group swims. Just show up and swim with us. All swims are parallel to the beach so any swimmer can do more or less. All attires are welcome, wetsuit, no wetsuit, fins, no fins, etc. You are responsible for your own safety.
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Current Ocean Temperature
(Goleta Point)
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| Sunday |
9:00 am |
Butterfly Beach followed by a potluck breakfast on the beach. One mile plus or minus (more details below). |
Monday
Wednesday
Friday |
12 noon |
Goleta Beach - meet by the shower - less than 1 mile. Optional longer swims during summer distance training.
(more details below). |
Saturday
Distance Training
(May-July) |
9:00 am |
Saturday morning swims vary in location and distance (3-7 miles). Each swimmer must bring their own kayaker, food, and hydration. |
- Meet at 9 AM at the last set of stairs. This swim is called "Four Palms to Red Hut".
- We leave from the stairs far from the Coral Casino and swim
along side of the beach to the " Red Hut " and then
back to the " Four Palms "
- We encourage anyone to participate, and because we swim parallel
to the beach, a swimmer can do any portion of the 50 minutes,
until he or she is acclimated to the cold water.
- Swim is about 1.25 miles.
- While the weather is still good and the temperature of the
water decent, some of us start the swim at 8:30 am and go beyond
the red hut (now defunct) to swim a longer course. We still
finish at 10:00 am with the rest of the swimmers.
- During the summer months the City Parks and Rec Dept installs buoys parallel to the beach for a distance of about ½ mile.
- Meet at noon at the beach by the restroom/shower nearest to the pier.
- The swim is about one mile, perhaps a bit under. Optional longer swims during the summer distance training.
- Buoys are in place in the summer.
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