Can You Do The Fandango…?

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hey are, of course, a particularly hardy breed of Greystonian…

Often getting up before the dawn’s alarm goes off and immersing themselves in that cold, cold South Beach water for their daily wake-up call.

And the Greystones Halcyon Sea Swimmers have been doing this long before dry robes were invented, or The Happy Pear twins gave up meat, beer and being truly happy.

Their motto? Many are cold, but few are frozen. Which is why the gang do warm-ups before and after that dawn dip.

And what better way to warm-up than doing a little 21st century line-dancing, courtesy of the Jerusalema challenge.

“We’re actually a sort of branch from the Greystones Halcyon group,” explains member Oonagh Conway, “and even before the lockdown, our numbers had expanded dramatically. We went from being a small wave to a tsunami, and by the beginning of 2021, we were all sorely missing getting together…”

With Oonagh forced to take a break from swimming after getting chilblains (told you that water was cold), she put all her pent-up energy into plotting a certain dance routine currently sweeping the nation, and beyond.

“Everyone came on board instantly,” she smiles, “and it gave us all a welcome lift, a distraction from the lockdown. We’re hoping the laugh it gave us – and the renewed sense of being together, even when apart – will have the same positive effect on others by sharing our incredibly poor dance skills with the rest of the town…”

Shot by long-time member Brian Gilmore [that’s him going Full Ursula Andress, above], fair, rosy-cheeked fecks to the entire Halcyon gang.

Even those feckers who cruelly commandeer the ladies’ post-swim café huddle corner…