The Water-Blog

JELLY FISH! Lots of 'em, their brown, translucent bodies pulsing and glistening on the beach in the brilliant morning sunshine ..."...

For nearly a week, an unrelenting wind had been whipping across the Island, bending tree limbs and rustling leaves and whipping up whitecap...

Our official season opener on Saturday morning saw a dozen swimmers hit the still-chilly but deliciously invigorating waters of Cold Sp...

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...

January 31st swim, with Joye Brown, me, Gae Polisner, and Annmarie Kearney-Wood -- and an anonymous harbor seal Well, that wasn’t so ba...

Jimmy, Sharon, me, Tony and Stephen The sun had almost but not quite burned its way through the clouds, so the air was decidedly chilly...

"Welcome to ‘June-uary,’" my cousin posted in response to my recent Facebook lament that I was still wearing flannel pajamas to b...

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...

  Proud Team Captain displaying our Team plaque  Weather conditions were perfect for this year's "Sound-to-Cove" S...

The 2013 "Team West Neck Pod" For the third year in a row, members of the West Neck Pod are taking up arms against cancer, as...

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...