THE Fishguard all-weather lifeboat was a visitor to the waters off Cardigan this morning (Sunday, December 31) in a joint training exercise with Cardigan RNLI.
Both inshore boats from Cardigan’s Poppit Sands RNLI station were launched as the crews from the two stations took the chance to get to know how each other work.
Tomorrow (New Year’s Day) the Poppit Sands New Year's Day swim takes place at 2pm.
Poppit Sands Surf Life Saving Club started the swim around 1980 as a way to raise money and to ‘make its members more hardy’.
It used to follow a Boxing Day game of touch rugby on the beach, but was later moved to New Year's Day to avoid clashes with other local swims.
About 50 people usually enter the water. Get there for 1.45pm. The Surf Life Saving club provide shelter and free soup for swimmers.
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