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Selkies are mysterious seal women in Northern Scottish mythology, who sometimes shed their sealskins and take on human form. They are also older women in Victoria, who shock their friends and families by swimming in the chilly Salish Sea. Either way, Selkies are impressive.
Except me. In water up to my hips, I stood there stalling: “Red fish, blue fish, turquoise fish, periwinkle fish, chartreuse fish …” Five heads, immersed to the neck in numbing water, grinned at me. “I know a lot of colour words,” I explained sheepishly.Reluctantly, I squatted down and leapt up immediately with a squawk. Once I was wet, it was easier to immerse again and just hang in the buoyant salt water. After five minutes I had to get out because a thousand ice needles were stabbing my feet.
One time in November I drove to the southern tip of Victoria to swim in a lagoon, newly discovered by one of our members. While unpacking my bag, I made my own new discovery. I had forgotten my booties! What could I do to protect my feet? In order to avoid feeling cold for the rest of the day, we decided to limit our immersion to one minute for each degree of water temperature. That is seven minutes in winter. We now know there is a honeymoon period of about four minutes after swimming before your wet body starts shivering. Don’t stand around exulting in dripping bathing suits! Use the time productively – get dressed.
We swim three times a week in three different locations. Two of them are secluded lagoons, so it would require binoculars for anyone in the few nearby homes to observe us changing. It is only the open sweep of Willows Beach that caused some hesitation at first. Now we don’t care. If the old guys shuffling by on the promenade behind us catch a brief glimpse of a senior bosom, so be it.
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