The Water-Blog

A dozen swimmers showed up at West Neck Beach this first day of the Memorial Day weekend to inaugurate the 2016 OWS season in near-perfect...

The annual New Year's Day open-water swim at West Neck Beach has become a hallowed West Neck Pod tradition, and the newly arrived 2015...

The Third Annual Huntington/Cold Spring Harbor Swim (a/k/a "The West Neck Swim") was a splashing success again this year, with ne...

Attendance has been sparse at weekend morning swims since the unofficial (and disappointing) start of the open-water swimming season on Me...

After a l-o-n-g, brutal winter that kept even the West Neck "Polar Pod" out of the water since mid-November, and delayed by seve...

Yes, those are frozen smiles on our faces... Now that was refreshing!   Gae Polisner's earlier Facebook plea for company in a mid...

The white-capped waves were plainly visible from the roadway as I turned into the parking lot at West Neck Beach this chilly September morn...

Orientation on the beach (photo by Gae Polisner) The West Neck Pod’s first formal "‘Newbies’ Intro to the Open Water" was a sp...

Dana Termini As with every open-water season, 2013 has brought a fresh crop of "newbies" to the West Neck Pod. This year’s gro...