Today’s stats:
Total Shelly swimmers: 105
New swimmers: 4
Bolderdashers: 4
Doublers: 4
2013 is the Chinese Year of the Water Snake – “This is a water year”
What’s your New Year’s Resolution…. LOTS OF LOVE AND KISSES!!
New Year’s Day gathering at South Steyne – a beautiful day!!
Welcome to Donald Margolis, Deputy City Attorney of San Francisco enjoying his first Aussie B&B swim.
Hitching an easy ride out to sea!
A great express rip..
A magnificent swim with the sun on your back in the 21.1 degree water temperature.
Detouring around party revellers!
Joyful NYD Shelly celebrations!
Been a big night, unaware of B&B presence..
Beautiful Shelly..
“Today is the first page of a book of 365 pages – write them well”
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Peta the “Flat Water Swimmer”
(Thank you to my fellow bloggers, Rainer, Elaine, Lesley and Gaetan)
15 comments
Alyson
01/01/2013 at 10:29 am
Happy new year everyone! Lovely to start the year off with you all. And great to meet you Margaret from Norway! 🙂
Michael [EX CI]
01/01/2013 at 10:38 am
What beautiful visibility today! I actually saw a few things. A couple of dusky whalers and a gorgeous Spotted Eagle Ray down at Queenscliff.
Warm water, clear, no wind and low swell. Wow!
Pacific Jules
01/01/2013 at 10:39 am
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!
What a fabulous debut blog Peta, talk about starting 2013 in style. Just love it. Warm, vibrant, full of love and kisses oh and accompanied by a touch of swimming 🙂
Long may it continue xox
Pacific Jules
01/01/2013 at 10:42 am
I saw two beautiful Eagle Rays and two healthy duskies at the point on the way back from Shelly too 🙂
What a fabulous start to the year, and what wonderful people to share it with.
annie "yay" I found my smurf suit in a tree
01/01/2013 at 11:03 am
What a wonderful way to start the new year…yay! So glad I didn’t press “snooze” on the alarm as was such great visibility and easy going swim. Can’t believe the City of Sydney even bought into the “Lips” story…a harbour bridge tribute for the world to see…how does he manage it?!!!!
So New year New spready?? One up! Great first blog Peta…you are a natural!
'The Lips' formerly known as Rainer
01/01/2013 at 11:30 am
Yes Annie, well spotted, it’s the year of the Lips! Sydney’s tribute to all jimble victims.. past, present, and future.
Snorks, if you read this over there, thats one point each for Annie and me on the new 2013 spreddy. Plus a bonus point for me for getting my lips up on Harbour Bridge!
Lovely swim this morning. Beatiful start to the New Year!
Great blogging debut Peta! Quality blog completed in record time. I had barely finished my breakfast when you were publishing!!
Oh yes, almost forgot, Andrew M spotted two white pointers at Shelly this morning. Andrew, can you elaborate?
Little Sarah
01/01/2013 at 11:51 am
Happy New Year everyone from Hong Kong! Not yet Chinese New Year, but we celebrate them all here….
Great blog, Peta with the assistance of some Lips:-) Annie,”Yay”, you made it!
Having serious withdrawal symptoms as we head off now to Big Wave Bay. Temp: 10c, sunny – just hope the water’s warmer…xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
E-lane
01/01/2013 at 12:13 pm
Great first blog Peta and you finished it so quickly too!Love your quote and some great photos.
Happy New Year everyone! So glad I got out of bed…again!
Andrew definitely saw 2 white pointers at Shelly, wonder if he’ll elaborate??!
Come back soon LSA and Jon!
DWSS
01/01/2013 at 12:41 pm
Happy new year everyone. Great way to start the day and the year.
Anne E
01/01/2013 at 2:55 pm
Nice blog, Peta. Excellent wordle! This morning I saw one of those yellow catfishy creatures that now has a different name and a beautiful translucent blue jellyfish about 50cm wide. Nice way to start the year!
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01/01/2013 at 3:42 pm
GREAT SWIM TODAY!
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John
01/01/2013 at 4:14 pm
Happy New Year to everyone
Great blog Peta to start off for 2013 and a top swim today.
Anna Alvsdotter
01/01/2013 at 5:56 pm
Agree with all my heart!
Love your blogging and what great photos too!!
Well done Peta, you have a second career ahead of you, I believe 🙂
Happy New Year to all you lovely swimmers. Love youse to bits.
Joanne
01/01/2013 at 8:16 pm
A fabulous start to my New Year – my first time with B&B and what a lovely lot you are – thank you!
Snorks reviewing from across the other side of the world
02/01/2013 at 7:47 am
Happy New Year! Love reading the blogs…..the final scores will be in for 2012 shortly…….