Today, 240 people turned up with big massive hearts! Ready to love our ocean.
This is Manly’s 20th ocean care day! Lovely Sparkles is here ready to pick up any rubbish she finds as she swims.
Cabbage Tree Bay was eventually agreed as ano-take reservein 2002, which means that since the Bold&Beautiful were established we’ve been able to enjoy and reap the benefits of the no fishing and no taking rules.
But, today, we are allowed to take…..we are taking away our rubbish!
The next few pics are from Harbour side ….as you can see all sorts washes up here!
John and Ian will be away over the Christmas break, so they are looking for volunteers to help out with the important jobs that keep the B&B running. Here’s JK supervising the taking of the water temperature….an important daily feature and one that can make a difference between ‘to don wetsuit or not?’
Birthday cuddles for Liz Jones. Happy Birthday Liz.
A newbie (?) rushing to get in with the 6:59’ers!
Morning smiles and coffees (in recyclable containers yay!)
Black is back for Summer 13….as these fine models all display their summer rashies with style.
Rusty showing off…..err, well anyway….
More rubbish collectors.
…and errr, stockings to carry, errr, well carry ‘stuff’ in
No end of rubbish gets washed into our oceans and today, we are giving back to nature and clearing up some of the mess that ends up contaminating our favourite part of the world.
Today acts a gentle reminder to us too, whilst our Blue Groper’s may act as large puppy dogs, following us around or the Wobbygong shark may lay very still on the bottom posing for pics, touching our marine life is a big no-no.
Here are some of today’s underwater favourites.
At Shelly, plenty of discussions occurred about the jellyfish (which I hadn’t seen at all, on the way to the beach !)
Oops! Here they are …check out the fish hiding in this one’s tentacles.
Sadly, I didn’t make it back in time for a pic go our pile of rubbish, but gladly apparently the pile was very small…which means there wasn’t much to pick up! A good thing.
Have a good Sunday and thanks for caring.
Remember XMAS Party on Tuesday!!! Tickets nearly gone. Jump onto the website to secure your spot!,
Stats:
240 Swimmers
20 newbies
19.5c Water
5:36am Sunrise
7:50pm Sunset
Signing off: Snorkles
Blogspot Available
Would you like to join our great team of Bloggers and have your OWN SPOT blogging for the WORLD FAMOUS Bold and Beautiful? Opportunities like this don’t turn up every day! 🙂
Sadly Robster the Blogster’s leisure time is becoming just too great for him and he has to give it up! 😉 ……(actually he has a job!)
All you have to do is: turn up for the swim every Monday (no matter what!), take photos whilst trying to swim, then rush home/work or Bluewater and write the blog for a couple of hours – it’s easy! The benefits are huge in return: Instant Fame, you get to express yourself, show everyone who you are, have fun taking the mickey out of Shaun and Storchy, a fan base/following and much much more!
All of those who currently blog will agree, I am sure, that yes it is a bit of a commitment BUT once you get the hang of it, it is easy and rewarding!
Full training offered of course and camera provided!
Let me / Ian know – or Robbie, who’s email is robert.byrne00@gmail.com
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2014 B&B CALENDAR ON SALE NOW!!
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Get one for yourself or pin it up at work. Give one to friends or send them overseas to the family back home. An ideal stocking filler for only $15 !
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For your diary and other stuff:
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B&B Attendance Login App
The B&B Attendance Login App is the perfect way to avoid queues!! Log your swim (only if you did swim), between 5am and 9am for the easy way to ensure your swim is recorded in the daily attendance and on the Pacific Challenge.
To get started, please send an email to Ian Forster [ ugoboyo@gmail.com ] requesting to have your account activated. Ian will then send you info on how to get started.
Staying safe
Remember that there are no badges for scaring yourself silly! While it is great to extend your boundaries, it is important to know your limits. Do read these excellent tips on staying safe in the surf. To read, or even download, click
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17 comments
LSA aka HKTQ
01/12/2013 at 12:09 pm
Sorry to miss you Snorkles, but see the Jellies were busy out-Blog Tarting everyone! Good job!
Went the other direction early and had a perfect boldercrawl. Thanks to Jon, Bernard & Monika for the good company! Not a spec of rubbish and no jellyfish.
Got back just after everyone left, so time to change slowly and a chair waiting for me at Manly Wine:-) AND I’ve helped ‘encourage’ another Blogger to your weekend support team!
Bill McChocolate
01/12/2013 at 1:02 pm
Rainer,
The German Rum and Raisin chocolate was delicious 🙂
I looked for you after sitting waiting, waiting, waiting at the seat of wisdom and finally had to rescue the chocolate from the elements, it was melting, and shared it with all at the table.
You would have loved it 🙂 🙂
Lesbubbles
01/12/2013 at 1:03 pm
Hey Snorks what is that pink plastic thing floating in the water …ii can’t quite make it out? ? 😉
..and I don’t think that fish was hiding in the tentacles. .I think he was dinner! !! 😉
Um….RUSTY!! THOSE pants are getting skimpier than Lucy’s!!
Not much rubbish as collected today…which is a pretty good sign! !
Thanks everyone who helped! !!
I hope Marije is ok..I think she had her first sting today???
Marije/Mariah
01/12/2013 at 1:26 pm
Such a nice swim untill I bumped into a jellyfish one stroke before arriving at shelley. All good now, thanks Leslie. Can still feel it but rash is already going down. Can’t believe though it got me in my face, neck, arms and bum at the same time. Thx for looking after me Rainer, Sharon and others. SEe you all tomorrow (I’ll be wearing a long sleeved rashie).
LSA aka HKTQ
01/12/2013 at 1:32 pm
So sorry to hear about this, Marije. Seems quite a few people got stung today and some quite badly. Best wishes for a quick recover to you and all!
Sparkles
01/12/2013 at 1:32 pm
great blog snorkels and great information about ocean care day… thank you so much. beautiful swim today perfect conditions, clear and gorgeous and no rubbish yahoo.
Sparkles
01/12/2013 at 1:34 pm
and a massive happy birthday to the beautiful Liz! hope you have a great year ahead!
Lips
01/12/2013 at 1:40 pm
Thanks Bill. Relieved to hear you ‘took care’ of the chocolate situation.
Apopogies for standing you up. Escorted badly stung Marije back to Halfway and had to run straight back home to get ready for Nippers.
I’d say the choclate was in an interesting state after swimming 1.5k with it stuffed down your budgies. Cant believe I missed out on that treat!!
JeffwithaJ
01/12/2013 at 1:40 pm
Enjoyed the blog Snorkels. Thanks. Really good photo of Sparkles!
I got stung across the chest today, widespread zing but settled quickly with no rash??
Dolphin Whisperer
01/12/2013 at 2:17 pm
Sorry to hear about your sting Marije.
Lips, Nippers? Your a bit big for that aren’t you?
Dolphin Whisperer
01/12/2013 at 2:26 pm
Great blog Snorks. You captured the day well.
Happy birthday Liz!!
Great work Marije giving Lips the excuse to get out at Shelly.
Great work Veena overcoming fears to do her 1st straight crossing to Shelly.
Great integrity police work JK!! Spotting the biathlon runners from Shelly.
Also Congratulations JK. You know what I’m talking about. Haha
Well done LSA for the bolderdash. Legend!!
Lesbubbles
01/12/2013 at 4:33 pm
DW your extensive knowledge of what is going down at 7AM is very impressive. .. This is just the sort of ‘eye’ we need on the blogging team…eh Little Sarah??!!
Snorkles
01/12/2013 at 5:16 pm
The pink plastic thing looks errrr like something that has floated straight on in from a Sat night at The cross! Euuuuewe
Snorkles
01/12/2013 at 5:19 pm
I can smell lavender in the wind ….
LSA aka HKTQ
01/12/2013 at 6:17 pm
Yes, great job Veena! For some of us, that first crossing is HUGE!
Thx Shaun. Actually the bolderdash congrats should go to Ros who did her very first one SOLO!! (For the record, I never dash…..just a very slow crawl:-))
LSA aka HKTQ
01/12/2013 at 6:23 pm
It would have to be a Monday-boot-camp-tea-bag-dip blog, if Shaun were to do it….. could be exciting with reports of who got out where and who cut a corner here and there. Actually, would be full of good humour for sure!
Marije/Mariah
01/12/2013 at 9:52 pm
I swear I can still smell lavender even though I’ve had 2 showers and a dip in the ocean since. It did work though as I have no swelling/rash anymore on my neck and face. Just got some marks on my arms.