12 bays of Christmas, Jersey, Jan 2022

January 8, 2022

Another year another, cold water swimming challenge! Being an avid fan of swimming, on a recent trip on Christmas and New Year to the Channel island of Jersey, my mum and I took part in the 12 bays of Jersey challenge which involved swimming in 12 bays of Jersey in support of Jersey Hospice Care and The National Trust for Jersey between 1 and 31 December 2021.

There are no requirements to swim a certain distance, merely a dip which works out very well for the festive socialising and eating and drinking in December!

I particularly liked the creative renaming of the bays as shown in Table 1, which I thought was an excellent example of destination-based marketing. However, some of the bays were not the easiest to find, so I have added the what3words location for ease of location should you find yourself in Jersey in December and fancy visiting some of the bays.

No	December themed Name	Year round Name	What3words location (As some of the bays are not the easiest to find)
1	Bouley Bay	Bauble Bay	///consisted.strength.shocking
2	Rocking around Rozel Bay	Rozel Bay	///motorcar.notations.mops
3	Le Saie in a Manger	Le Saie	///heartbeat.tastefully.dogfish
4	Anneport & stilton	Anne Port	///rumbles.desk.leagues
5	Grouville	Once in Royal Bay of Grouville	///cults.catchment.trademark
6	Robin Bay	Robin Bay	///fines.done.panting
7	Deck “La Haule”	La Haule	///listened.flirtation.professes
8	Jingle bell..croute	Bel Croute	///sloppily.lazier.preferable
9	Port let it snow	Portlet bay	///unblinking.madly.coated
10	Jingle bell all the “Quaisne”	Quaisne	///obstacle.drawing.partially
11	Snow port	Beauport	///curbed.crosses.concretely
12	Santa Ouen	St Ouen (Le Braye only)	///tone.bidder.coaster