SWIM CLUB
Kath Mclean didn’t start out with a grand plan when she began swimming with her two young daughters, Ivy and Edith.
It was the dead of winter, August 2020, and the nation was in lock-down. Kath had a terrible headache and thought a swim might do her good. “I jumped into the ocean pool at Bronte and I felt my headache leave my body immediately, and I thought, ‘oh, this is beautiful.’”
The stress her family had experienced in the first few months of the pandemic, fear of the virus, home schooling, the loss of work, disappeared in that moment. “I got out, and I said to the girls, ‘That was great. You want to come tomorrow?’”
They did. And so the next day they went back into the ocean, and the next day, and soon swimming was a regular part of their around the kitchen table.
