If you live in Swansea, you should learn from this
When the sea goes out, Swansea bay is very big. A large flat space which extends all the way to the mumbles (home of tasty icecream) which would normally take a long time to walk to.

This large, flat, space looks pretty tempting to walk across to any ice cream and adventure loving person, but believe me, it's not.

After JUST ONE PINT we made the decision to walk across. Three quarters of an hour in, most of us are shoeless and the ooze bubbling up in our footprints is an unhealthy shade of fluorescent pink. All those stories about Swansea bay being full of sewage and mutogenic substances float through our brain, but it's too late now...and it's only a bit further.

Some time after this, we find ourselves in a friends house in mumbles, tired, wet, muddy and all our shoes destroyed. We block up his shower with rancid mud and sand and piss off another friend by demanding a lift. Worst of all no ice cream :(

Never do this, kids, turns out it's pretty easy to drown, too, when the very fast tide comes in.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 21:19, 5 replies)

You don't have to be the messiah
To walk on water in Swansea bay. Just a very naughty boy with chemical resistant boots
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 1:43, closed)

Swansea Bay
I tried that too, lost my shoes, socks and developed a raging bacterial dermatitis between my toes. Fell over a few times, and smelled like the interior of the Devil's rectum.
(micmac is happy as a pig in shite, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 3:03, closed)

I swam in there once, just by the mumbles after a day on the lash.
The locals just looked at us like we we fucking idiots.

(we were, it appears)
(Pat_Gash, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 13:44, closed)

all you had to do was go round the corner to braclet bay
it's not so toxic there
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 19:25, closed)

Mumbles Regatta 1984
The sea looked very blue, even for an overcast day. It was blue - when it slopped over the sides of the boat it looked like blue Gatorade.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 28 Sep 2010, 16:21, closed)