Winter swimming holiday in Scotland

Planet

CARBON REDUCTION

We have designed our trip operations carefully to minimize our impact on our environment. By its very nature, exploring the world via swimming – “human powered”, means our guests are not using unnecessary motorized vehicles to enjoy their holiday destination. We try to keep our transfer times as short as possible, ensuring guests spend less time travelling and more time swimming on their swim vacation. All our trips are sold without flights so travellers have the option to use more environmentally friendly means of travel if they wish. The timings of this trip are such that rail trail is both encouraged and optimal. We include transfers to/from the local station.

Accommodation is in our partner house in Arisaig – a remote area of the Highlands.

As we cater in house, all dietary requirements can be met. Vegetarian & Vegan food is available at all meals and all food is homemade and based on the finest local ingredients.

ENVIRONMENT & WILDLIFE

As swimmers, we are passionate about the environment and taking measures to protect both the oceans and lands including all local wildlife.
We continue to be reminded of the problem of plastic in our oceans. As such, we are committed to helping reduce to amount of plastic we use on our trips. We do this by:
• Encouraging guests to bring their own reusable water bottle on tour
• Running regular guide plastic clean up sessions in our locations
• Encouraging good washing of wetsuits/swim kit between swim locations to avoid the threat of invasive species

People

LOCAL ECONOMY

Our local partners provide an invaluable wealth of local knowledge – from food, to customs and hidden-away local gems. The house we use on this trip is family owned and has previously been their family home. Through years of building happy, positive relationships with our local partners, we are confident in the knowledge that our guests will receive a wonderful warm welcome.

As most of our locations are small and remote, we make sure that our itineraries ‘spread the happiness’ meaning we take the guests to visit different businesses within the community. Due to the remote location of this trip, we provide all meals and purchase all food locally in Fort William.

EMPLOYMENT, INCLUSIVITY AND DIVERSITY

Our partner house provides employment for local people in Arisaig – a remote area of the Highlands. We usually a local garage for our hire cars supporting further this area.

All our trips are inclusive and everyone is welcome to join us as long as we can make suitable arrangements for any individual needs. The trip is LGBTQ+ friendly and we are happy to discuss individual needs relating to mobility, vision, hearing or cognitive issues and as long as we can put in place measures to ensure the trip remains safe for all guest we welcome everyone.