Over 100 'Baywatch' Sea Swimmers Take Charity Dip in Helen's Bay on Belfast Lough

29th December 2022

100 Baywatch keen swimmers took to the water for the Christmas Eve Dip at Helen's Bay on Belfast Lough

Helen’s Bay is a small village on the Belfast to Bangor railway line on the south shore of Belfast Lough and is named after Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Clandeboye, who lived in the early nineteenth century.

It’s not recorded whether she ever took a swim off the small beach there, but nowadays open water swimming is popular and many members of Helen’s Baywatch regularly swim at that location.

On Christmas Eve there were over one hundred Baywatch keen swimmers took to the water for the Christmas Eve Dip in a well-planned and safe event, to raise funds for two charities – Bangor RNLI and Marie Curie.

Published in Sea Swim, Northern Ireland Waters, Belfast Lough

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Betty Armstrong is Afloat and Yachting Life's Northern Ireland Correspondent. Betty grew up racing dinghies but now sails a more sedate Dehler 36 around County Down

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