Another place to swim in the sea

We have a long break in the middle of the day on our Tai Chi refresher course and one of the given activities, this summer, is swimming. Our Gigong teacher and friend (Lensmemory) is also on the course and he was staying in this house, with its cross betweeen a veranda and a jetty and its own beach. It's in an almost totally enclosed sea bay, a fantastic natural shelter for small boats (and swimmers)
If you take a run from the veranda you land in 2,5 meters of water and the bottom is soft clay. Yesterday we swam here and dried off in the sun under a lovely blue sky. Today it was a lot more cloudy and thunderstorms swept by but it was still lovely to swim.
Today's lunch break involved lunch (duh!) and then I helped our course leader Ulf try out his new climbing equipment, 2 ascenders and an abseiling device. He likes geocaching and some of the more tricky caches in northern Norway, where he lives, are up in trees, under bridges, or half-way up a cliff. He was learning to use the equipment so he could reach these trickier caches. One of the course participants wondered if he wasn't a little old to start learning to swing under bridges or prussik up ropes into high pine trees (he is 74) but Ulf didn't seem to understand the question! It was very nice to be able to use my (caving) experience to help Ulf with something, after he'd spent so much time teaching us Tai Chi.
The final hour gave us a chance to swim at the pictured cottage. For the first few minutes we were swimming in the rain but then the sun shone through and we dried off as we sat and chatted.
Then it was back to our last afternoon of Tai Chi.
The course continues for two more days but we have only learned the first 16 forms and tomorrow they work on the rest of the forms which we haven't learned yet.