Sunny morning here

@ArishMell went to the beach it was a bit cooler there

@Sam17 Very good! I stayed at home and kept out of the hottest sun. I'm not a good swimmer and the sea won't have warmed up much yet.

@ArishMell going to the beach today again

@Sam17 Enjoy it! I'm not going anywhere today, but am in just shorts in the garden, and nude indoors.

@ArishMell go nude in the garden too

@Sam17 I can only with care, in one or two spots not overlooked. How about you?

@ArishMell same in the garden but can go nude at the beach

@Sam17 The ones near me are all textile, but there is another some miles away that is unofficially clothes-optional and I used to visit it sometimes on my way home when it was a fairly short detour from my commuting route.

Do you swim much?

@ArishMell yeah when it's warm
Our beaches are the same but there's a discreet part that you can get nude

@Sam17 That's good!

I was never a good swimmer, largely because I don't float easily. I can, just, in sea-water but sink in fresh. I tried swimming lessons several years go but it was no good.

@ArishMell I'm not great either but I did learn how to float

@Sam17 I found I can do that, by experimenting in shallow water, enough to swim short distances on my back. I've not mastered it enough to be able to swim in straight lines!

You'd think I'd be good at it as I've lived by the sea for most of my life, but it never worked out that way.

@ArishMell keep trying

@Sam17 Thank you! I will! My favoured bathing season is late Summer / early Autumn because the water is at its warmest then.

@ArishMell this year the sea has been very warm so it's been good to swim

@Sam17 Ooh, that's encouraging! Which part of the country, so which coast, is yours?

@ArishMell I'm East Coast

@Sam17 Supposedly "bracing" there! I'm on the South.

(My profile photo, from Google Maps, is of the original Arish Mell, a small and rather remote bay some distance from me. I have not actually been there though.)

@ArishMell cooler today

@Sam17 Yes, and overcast here.

@ArishMell nice while it lasted.

@Sam17 I kept out of the hottest though.

@ArishMell same here It was too risky