Bedruthan Steps Hotel, Spa & Events Venue: June 2011

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Spare 2 minutes and Keep Cornwall Beautiful

Bedruthan Steps

Have you visited Cornwall? Do you care about keeping our natural environment beautiful?

Can you spare 2 minutes, then, to do your bit to protect Cornwall's areas of outstanding natural beauty?

All we want you to do is fill in a short online survey about your trip to Cornwall.

Red Hotels Ltd, owners of Bedruthan Steps and the Scarlet hotels, is supporting sustainable tourism enterprise CoaST with its project comparing sustainable practices in national parks and protected areas in Europe. CoaST's aim is to discover how we can improve our practices here in Cornwall.

CoaST is an independent body and social enterprise based in a refurbished barn in Cornwall. CoaST consists of 3 women and 1 man who variously:

• encourage,

• inform,

• network,

• research,

• lobby,

• measure,

• persuade,

• object,

• question,

• bend ears,

• break boundaries and

• never knowingly give up.

Most of Cornwall's visitors come for the environment and visit one or more of the 12 distinctive Cornwall Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) during their stay.

We are asking you - followers and friends of Bedruthan Steps and the Scarlet hotels, and as visitors to Cornwall - to answer a few simple questions about how we can develop sustainable tourism in Cornwall's beautiful protected areas.

CoaST's short survey only takes 2 minutes of your time, and we would really appreciate it if you could complete in the survey online. The deadline is 31st July 2011.

Click here to complete the survey.

And click here to find out more about what Bedruthan Steps and the Scarlet's sustainable practices.

Click on the following links to read more about our commitment to the environment in various different guises:

Bedruthan and the Scarlet's Sustainable Travel Press Trip

Simple pleasures and Upcycling

Bedruthan wins Green Tourism Awards

Thank you so much for helping. If you have any questions, please contact:

Marja

At CoaST

01872-562057

info@coastproject.co.uk

Friday, June 24, 2011

Baby Swimming

by Genevra Fletcher

Here's a lovely moment captured at Bedruthan's baby swimming class on Tuesday. Gorgeous Georgia seems to be lapping up every moment of her swimming lesson.

She, her big brother Reuben and her mum and dad all had a whale of a time with baby swim teacher Lisa Zachary of Swim Academy for Babies.

I like the authentic swimming pool steam-on-the-lens quality of these photos.

The underwater shot demonstrates in action the mammalian dive reflex (which stops a baby taking an immediate inhalation of breath when submerged in water).

I always get this baby reflex mixed up with the moro reflex - the one where a baby throws up its arms when it feels unsupported.

We are running baby swimming sessions as part of our programme of activities for Bedruthan's Young Families Month - our June long celebration of mum, dad and baby bonding!

The baby swim lessons are for Bedruthan guests only, and are for 0-5 year-olds. We run 2 classes, each for half an hour.

What's so good about swimming for young babies?

Warm water and gentle exercise can help your baby sleep and stimulate your baby’s appetite.
Babies are more relaxed in water, and it’s a fun environment for babies to develop strength, to exercise, and to explore balance and buoyancy.
Babies are well adapted to swimming and are born with a swimming reflex. When placed on their tummies in warm water, babies will move their arms and legs in a swimming motion. By encouraging this, you can help baby transfer these involuntary movements into coordinated swimming movements.
Water play is a multi-sensory activity. Babies use all of their senses to explore water: sight, sound, touch. They also engage their sense of balance and muscular movements and pressure.
Your baby’s brain is developing rapidly. When you expose your baby to water environments, your baby is more likely to have successful water experiences in the future.

More useful information about baby swimming here.

And also:

Swim Academy for Babies