31 adventurous Bold & Beautiful swimmers enjoyed a free rush of adrenaline this morning.
With water moving around all over the place, an absolutely massive swell and waves breaking everywhere – it’s simply epic out there !
2 experienced surf swimmers, Clive and Fiona, swam from the beach this morning, plus Graham who swam the pre-dawn lap solo – now that is what I call ‘keen’ !
The rest of us looked on with baited breath
as we made our way around to Half Way Beach
for our swim to Shelly and back with plenty of adventure and excitement
The swim across was full of bounce with the moon more visible than the sun.
We even saw our very own Venus passing the sun…
As we walked the line
back to celebrate Brad’s birthday in style. Happy birthday Brad 🙂
Check out Gaetan’s dramatic photos taken from Queenscliff with the waves breaking right up to the clouds in the second photo !
If you missed all the action this morning you will be able to get the feel of it from watching Gaetan’s video here
How about this, the Freshie snowfields, formerly known as Freshie Rockpool, beautifully captured by James.
7 swimmers have swum everyday of winter so far !! Check how how many you have done here
To read Michael’s suggestions on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
Water Temperature 18.2
Air Temperature 11.0
Sunrise 6.54am
Sunset 4.53pm
High Tide: 9.43am
Low Tide: 3.19pm
10 comments
Anna Alvsdotter
06/06/2012 at 10:57 am
Very impressed by Graham and Fiona going out from the beach this morning! Superfish, the two of you.
It was a great swim from Halfway beach too, although the water had that “je ne sais quoi” smell about it… 🙂
Pacific Jules
06/06/2012 at 11:02 am
Sorry for the confusion… Clive went out with Fiona 🙂 Graham went out earlier for the pre-dawn lap, solo.
Jane
06/06/2012 at 11:08 am
Anna, I think the “je ne sais quoi” quality of the seawater after heavy rain is a heady mixture of dog poo and cigarette butts.
Anna Alvsdotter
06/06/2012 at 11:28 am
Disgusting, isn’t it Jane? And some people would happily smoke that sh*t 😉
I guess we’re just as crazy though, actually SWIMMING in it..! Ha ha ha ha!
Tacomajim
06/06/2012 at 11:39 am
South Curly and Freshie Rockpools last night and this morning.
The ocean was the safer option!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7ILDsYam0
iain
06/06/2012 at 12:16 pm
Thanks to Jimmy the Groin for a great video !
Little Tiger
06/06/2012 at 4:07 pm
James, great video. I was at Freshie pool just before 8am, fantastic viewing from the STEPS, however a family of 5 (mum,dad, 2girls & family dog), were almost swept off their feet, they were standing right beside the pool, could’ve been a real tragedy.
fifi
06/06/2012 at 8:46 pm
I was very pleased that the last wave was indeed the last wave and not the first of another set as my hat was about to fly off. And lucky I am too shortsighted to have seen that audience, I’d have been really embarrassed….
and I guess apropos of my strange behaviour, before i discovered the marvellous B and B I swam at Curl Curl every day at 5am…so James video brings back fond memories….lol.
Pacific Jules
06/06/2012 at 9:22 pm
We’re sure glad you swim with us now Fifi 🙂
fifi
06/06/2012 at 10:01 pm
🙂
me too!