There was a bright start for the Malcolm Bowie Bathing Pool, as the sun emerged from behind the clouds and the swimmers took to the water.

Alison Finch, their children, Malcolm's parents and his brother and sister-in-law attended the official opening with some of the benefactors who made the refurbishment possible.

The Fellows' Bathing Pool, believed to be the oldest in the country dated from the mid-17th century.  Its recent refurbishment and renaming in commemoration of Malcolm Bowie will allow future Christ's swimmers to follow in Darwin's wake and take to the water.