88 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
A slight change to our daily ritual this morning… we swam north to North Steyne and back instead of our regular swim to Shelly and back as there was a report of a clump of blue bottles half way to Shelly Beach from one of our swimmers, Ian Paul, who had ventured out for an early paddle. Thanks for the heads up Ian, it enabled up to prevent a repeat of yesterday’s unwelcome adventures.
A good call it was too, as it was a super super swim. One of those swims when you felt like you were flying over the desert, with a few stingrays, fiddler rays and a shovel nosed shark to admire along the way.
For those of you who felt it was a slightly longer swim, it was ! It was a 2km round trip swim, which is 2 thirds of Bolderdash, so there’s no excuses now, we can expect to see you all for the 5.50am Bolderdash (3km) to Queensie and back on Monday morning… as a warm up for the regular 1.5km Shelly swim at 7 🙂
Today’s superb photos are courtesy of Gaetan Guilhon, thanks Gaetan, they are magic, love the colours and what a stunning sunrise.
As much as we dislike blue bottles, that is a magnificent photo of one !! Gotta love the last photo of our resident Heron along the side of the walkway too.
Tim’s fact of the day: “A sea horse moves its back fin so fast that it looks like a little spinning pinwheel.” 
Water Temperature 20.3 degrees.
Air Temperature 19.5 degrees.
Sunrise 5.52am.
Sunset 7.26pm.
Low Tide: 11.16am.
High Tide: 5.25pm.
6 comments
clive
November 5, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Hi did anyone pick up a pair of white googgles? I must have dropped them on the walk up to the SLSC.
Thanks Clive 0402 291 821
Tacomajim
November 5, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Great photos, Gaetan. Sorry to miss this morning. Up on the roof with a bucket of tar instead!
Gaetan
November 5, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I just went for a snorkel back and forth between the point and Shelly, it wasn’t the best clarity for a snorkel, however I did not see a single blue bottle and I stay in there for 2 hours.
I also asked the few swimmers I saw along the way, and no one reported any damage. So this is it, Shelly is BBottles free (unless the north easterlies decide otherwise!)
As for the fish, good news, old wives and silver batfish are back, and there are heaps of blue gropers and flatheads around. I saw a nice crayfish too.
Neil
November 5, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Ok I’m going to check it out
fifi
November 5, 2011 at 5:07 pm
I had a beautiful swim, thanks Bluebottle Patrol.
Lee Cooper
November 5, 2011 at 8:28 pm
I went for a walk after the swim and saw a clump of BBs near and around the rocks along the walkway – they were big. North easterly winds for most of the arvo – don’t like our chances tomorrow!