SwimVacation

The Trip

SwimVacation’s Maine trip is a family-friendly swimming vacation on an island on a pristine lake. Enjoy twice-daily group swims, 3 fabulous meals a day, cozy cabins, impromptu and scheduled hikes, bikes, runs, and naps.

Location: Joyce Island, home of Taconnett on Great Pond. Explore their website for some specifics about this special place.

The Swimming

Great Pond (actually a very large lake) has wonderfully clean water and is surrounded by beautiful pine forests. Small islands dot its North end, making for interesting swimming routes. Our twice-daily swims are guided and designed to be your distance at your pace. Many guests will have different goals for their swims: endurance training, stroke improvement, speed, or just to have fun. We can accommodate these different goals, and we can often provide 2 or 3 different distances to choose from for each swim. Water temp is often well into the upper 70s, but wetsuits are welcome! During your stay we also provide optional open water swimming clinics on such techniques as sighting and navigation, buoy turns, pack swimming and drafting, and race strategy.

Accommodations

Joyce Island, home of Taconnet on Great Pond, has 15 rustic but tidy cabins of varying size. We will choose a cabin (or cabins) for you according to the size of your group.

Three fabulous meals per day, served in a camp lodge, are included in the price of this trip.

Activities

Scheduled optional activities will include hiking, running, and road or mountain biking. Other island activities include tennis, fishing, basketball, and impromptu wiffleball and kickball games.

The Children

Arts, crafts and games keep the young kids occupied each weekday morning. For children 3 years of age and older, activities run from 9 to 11 a.m. (younger children may participate with a parent). We meet at the yellow picnic tables, or in the Main Lodge in case of bad weather. This will coincide with a morning swim or clinic. Strong swimmer kids can join the adults for the swims and clinics.

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