22 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
It’s currently Jacuzzi Manly, to quote Gaetan from last nights comment 🙂
This morning there were the silly 6 swimmers who went out and under through the monster mush: Brendan Maher, Michel Le Vieux, Nick TB Dowson, Ricky Facer, Simon Eddy & Simon Herfort.
Then there were the sensible 7 swimmers who negotiated the broken steps and the smashing water at half way beach: Celso Gratti, Dave Gibson, Eric Miller, Julie Isbill, Michael Christe, Stephen Coulter & Tim Holloway.
Then there were safe 8 (ok there were actually 9 of them but that ruins my pattern) who negotiated the shore dump at Shelly Beach to swim out and back. Cathie Coleman and Vicki Harbutt were of particular note, Cathie swam flipper-less and Vicki got washed off her feet landing beautifully at Cathie’s 🙂
Brendan Maher and Michel Le Vieux then swam
back in through the mega surf attracting a huge audience off the point, and elevating their community standing to hero status – well done guys, great effort and very generous of you to provide Manly’s morning entertainment 🙂
Murray from Sprout Daily was at half way beach as the sensible 7 entered this morning, so hopefully there will be some more great shots on their blog today 🙂
Celso got two war wounds; a sratch on his chest and a bump on his knuckle, Dr Cathie said it would need a band aid, but sadly it didn’t last long enough to make it on the photos and hence it didn’t require the band aid either, better luck next time Celso 🙁
It was certainly an exhilarating morning, attracting a big audience with lots of oohhs & agghhs.
Great B&B on tour photo of one of our swimmers at the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, who is it ???
Also a couple of great photos and video from Tim Ettle capturing the very wild conditions yesterday are up on the website on the random images page under Bold & Beautiful, and the videos page respectively… Enjoy 🙂
Water Temperature 20.5 degrees.
Air Temperature 18 degrees.
Sunrise 6.52am.
Sunset 4.54pm.
High Tide: 8.28am.
Low Tide: 2.02pm.
13 comments
Stephen Coulter
June 2, 2011 at 9:03 am
Well done silly 6, especially Nick TB who said he got emotional out the back but managed to wash his bathers before arriving at Shelly!
Nick
June 2, 2011 at 10:04 am
Good one Steve, I was in control, well most of me was !!
Im swimming back next time .. !
Gaétan
June 2, 2011 at 10:15 am
this morning pics, B&Bs are somewhere in the water:-)
https://picasaweb.google.com/gguilhon/Manly20110602CrazyWaves?authkey=Gv1sRgCNiu3cWixLHNFg#
Pacific Jules
June 2, 2011 at 10:40 am
Nick, youre already our hero, you dont need to find the limit you know !!
Pacific Jules
June 2, 2011 at 11:40 am
Fantastic photos Gaetan, well except for the ‘one’ that made my bum look bigger than the waves, of course that was bad photography and not a wake up call that I need to get back on my weight loss program – fast 🙁
Gaétan
June 2, 2011 at 11:56 am
and a video:
http://vimeo.com/24546038
Anna Alvsdotter
June 2, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Brendan and Michel, you make us proud. Well done and thank you for making sure the B&B through this morning’s events lives up to its motto of being Manly’s Most Popular Daily Drama.
Btw, I’m very pleased to announce I’ve done 10 percent of the required winter swims for the badge.
Anna Alvsdotter
June 2, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Beautiful pics again, Gaetan!
Sven
June 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Looks like Madlen & myself missing all the action while the sun shines in Germany.
Well done all of you and great photos on Sproud Daily
Off to the north sea today for a pink dip
Brendan Maher
June 2, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Thanks so much Michel for shepherding me in. I’m still on an adrenaline high.No truth in the rumour that I was just trying to avoid having to go to work this morning!
Brendan Maher
June 2, 2011 at 4:11 pm
PS thanks Gaetan for the fantastic pics and video
Pacific Jules
June 2, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Great video Gaetan, love the hero boys and all the pink bums at the point, but what happened to the signature ending ?? 🙁
Gaétan
June 2, 2011 at 4:36 pm
I did that on purpose Jules, I did not want the whole world to see B&Bs as the new Jackass 😉