81 Bold and Beautiful swimmers took to the waves this morning.
Firstly, photo of the week came from Thursday’s blog..congrats Elaine! Personally I thought my selfie from last Monday was better…but whatever.
Ok, so today brought a new challenge for the no.1 Blogger of the week. Namely that “Girl Friday” blogger AA decided to no show with the communal camera.
This is her trying to hide her shame after brazenly enjoying a “non-swim” breakfast
Luckily I had my iPhone with me so was able to take a couple of shots and to be honest, its a seemless transition for an expert blogster like myself.
An arty photo of the evil B&B overlords in their special winter booties
Now you all know about the “Winter without Wetsuit” badge. Well, I have been able to coerce a number of unwilling people into attempting it in aid of charity. We have decided to raise some well needed funds for local hospice BEAR COTTAGE. Here is a photo of the group….I guarantee you that we will look a lot worse for wear by the end of the challenge, if thats possible.
(Nicki B missed the photo, apologies!!)
If you would like to support us in our quest, please follow this link. Whether it is $1 or $100, every single cent is needed and very much appreciated.
https://give.everydayhero.com/au/BoldandBeautifulManly
If you want to follow your progress in the challenge, or the progress of others there is a cool link which shows how many swims/weeks you need to go to finish the challenge:
http://www.faulconbridgesoftware.com/bb/pub/winterbadge2013.html
Here is Jules, all equipped for her first Winter swim without a wetsuit, hot water bottle and all!
JK went down to check the temperature, at 19.8C he was wondering what all the fuss was about.
“Time to break out the HTFU spray I think” he mumbled.
A couple of doctors, a meeting of minds you might say. Well, one mind anyway.
The local hitman was confirming his next job. Scary.
FYI. For an extra 50 cents, you can get an “Adult” Latte. Iain Liddels coffee below came with the male version.
But if you cant afford breakfast at all, feel free to eat the small peanut butter sachets as demonstrated by Jess
Below video in from HK triad queen LSA…..enjoy!
And this photo of the week candidate just in from Stephen Coulter
Thats all from Monday Blogster, another home run!
Keep swimming and smiling,
Robster the Blogster
There is a
NEW BADGE – the 500 km badge! See the Pacific Challenge top left of the
blog to see how many km’s you’ve swum – if you’ve hit 500 or more you
get a badge….(for $10)
33
people so far have already qualified for their badge – they will be
presented at our NEXT monthly dinner at Bluewater –Tuesday 4th June at 6.30pm (or any time after that night). See the “management” for more details!
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ALSO
at the above dinner one of our swimmers Dr Ray Hodgson will be giving a
talk about the work he does in Nepal with women who suffer prolapse
after child birth. He organises trips for volunteers for 2 week stints
and is always looking out for more volunteers to go to Nepal and help.
If you want to hear from someone who is making a difference to peoples
lives and want to find out what you can do to help, then come along to
the dinner. Bring friends, family, all welcome! This amazing man is
another Fred Hollows and we really should come along. He is flying down
from Port Macquarie especially for us!
TO BOOK INTO THE NEXT MONTHLY DINNER PLEASE RSVP HERE!!
We
want to get as MANY people as we can that night so we can book the
whole restaurant out!!!! Remember it’s only $20 for a starter AND main
course of delicious food!! Desserts and drinks are only $5 each and no
corkage on wine!! Bluewater now offer a special $25 menu too.
High Tide 12am
Low Tide 6.59pm
Sunrise: 6.52am
Sunset: 4.53pm
Newbies: Zero 🙁
Temp: 19.8C
23 comments
"Snorkles"
03/06/2013 at 10:13 am
Ooooh! Robbie – you should have mentioned the camera issue! Would have taken some photos or alternatively given you my bad shots from yesterday!!!
Nicki B
03/06/2013 at 10:20 am
I’m changing my order to a latte…
Cheeky Monkey aka Snorkles
03/06/2013 at 10:35 am
I think I might order a large…..
Cheeky Monkey aka Snorkles
03/06/2013 at 10:36 am
The photo of the hitman ..is he trying to on-sell his ‘special cream’ from yesterday?
Lips
03/06/2013 at 11:03 am
Anna, love your work. Anything that helps minimizing blog exposure of wetsuitless Robbie is welcome.
Hiding the camera? Pretty low, but if it serves the greater good of B&B movement and blog readership I’m all for it.
LSA, Jon, Annie – great little video. Enjoy your cocktails and warm pool water while you can. Soon you’ll be confronted with the harsh reality of Manly Winter: cold southerly winds, rapidly dropping water temperature and, worst of all, the traumatizing sight of a wetsuitless Robbie before breakfast. It will be a long, harsh winter..
Cheeky Monkey aka Snorkles
03/06/2013 at 11:19 am
Nice to see you there on a Monday -couldnt quite believe how many people struggled wiht my guest appearance and still no blog photo!
THE MANAGEMENT
03/06/2013 at 11:26 am
Just a little bit too cheeky today, Cheeky Monkey. Not sure what you were thinking. Your “rashie” was deemed by Management to have exceeded the thermal assistance threshold for the WWW badge. Any more contraventions will result in “deductions”, thereby forcing additional swims (in August when it is much colder).
Slow Ian
03/06/2013 at 11:28 am
What about a long black?
Little Sarah aka LSA aka HK Triad Queen
03/06/2013 at 11:58 am
Thx Lips, BUT….. I’d just about convinced Annie to return soon with tales about all the gorgeous, warm, sunny, calm swims with fish and turtles.
Now she’s saying, forget it – no way ’til summer when it’s warm and cosy again and Robbie puts his wetsuit back on:-))
Little Sarah aka LSA aka HK Triad Queen
03/06/2013 at 12:06 pm
Ha, ha., love Management’s humour or maybe they’re serious…:-))
Good luck all WWWs! Iain, don’t forget your pink cap or you’ll be given extra August penance swims too:-))
Will try to not spend a gold coin put aside for the kitty-cause!
Cheeky Monkey aka Snorkles
03/06/2013 at 1:29 pm
I’m not sure what i was thinking either?!?! I may have to line my other rashie with banana skins to keep warm through Winter.
With Sunday blogging duties (I did notice a distinct lack of the WWW crowd mentioned today when it was cold and blustery and raining yesterday btw) I will HAVE to swim in August at any rate!
Cheeky Monkey aka Snorkles
03/06/2013 at 1:30 pm
What is Lesbutt doing in that group shot btw???? To the left of Jules M head!!!! ahem!!!
Fish-Twitcher aka E-laine aka Lainey loo
03/06/2013 at 1:42 pm
93 people booked in for the Bluewater dinner as of 10am. Better book quick if you haven’t as they can only take 110! Yay! Thanks for photo of the week award!!!
Lucy
03/06/2013 at 1:44 pm
I know, bit of an adjustment hey Lesley?
Getting everything ready to swim over some bubbles from divers?!
Shanon the shiv
03/06/2013 at 3:11 pm
Hi Lucy
Who was the guy you were with this morning?
Robbie Byrne
03/06/2013 at 4:24 pm
AMAZING response to our Charity fundraiser, our target is $1000 and 3 days in we have $840 already!!! Thank you all so very much, lets get to $1K! 😉
lesbubbles
03/06/2013 at 4:26 pm
hehe
lesbubbles
03/06/2013 at 4:31 pm
OMG!!!!! good spotting Snorkmonkey!
lesbubbles
03/06/2013 at 4:32 pm
I don’t think that was a mistake that the p*nis was in Iain’s coffee – who was the barista?? hehe
Robster
03/06/2013 at 4:43 pm
Agreed, Hugh personally requested it for him
DWSS
03/06/2013 at 6:19 pm
“Adjusting” is that what you call it Lesbubbles?
I told you this morning that putting your bag next to mine was a subconscious thing!!
I didnt know you were “adjusting” when I was taking my shirt of!!!
Interesting….
Lucy
03/06/2013 at 6:23 pm
Dolphin Whisperer Shaun. He’s a really nice guy. I think he’s taken but I was shouldered out of the way by Lesbubbles anyway.
Phil the filled fitted filly
03/06/2013 at 6:45 pm
One more educated than us in the ways of the mind would have a lot to say about Lesley’s unconscious adjustments at that time!!