09/07/2012 – Exceptional Swim !!!

83 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.

Lucky enough to be swimming together on this exceptional morning which started something like this…

With a beautiful sunrise, clear blue skies, lots of happy swimmers and… magnificent water clarity !!

The sun was bouncing across the surface the water

Whilst the marine life was just exploding underwater… what with this lovely big Wobbegong

 

 

A few Dusky Whalers.

Plus notice this stick without the ball on top… the ball is the device used by the researchers to detect the movement of the tagged marine life in the bay and at 10.45am as I am writing this blog, the researchers aboard the Sea Wasp are currently putting the balls back in place !

A school of juvenile Goat-fish (I think)

A ball of juvenile Catfish (don’t touch them as they have toxic spines)

The most gracious and colourful of them all the beautiful Giant Cuttlefish

There’s also a short video of this morning’s Cuttlefish for you to watch here  They really are magic, so please have a quick look, especially if you’ve never seen one before.

A Stingaree with a six-pack just above his eyes… 😉

And a school of Sand Whiting to mention just a few of this morning’s amazing delights.

Oh and the most reliable of them all, some B&B swimmers amongst the mix too 🙂  Including Neil MacLean who’s happy to be back after his 7 week working holiday around Europe.

 

 

 

 

 

Murray from Sprout Daily joined us for a swim with his camera this morning and got some fantastic photos !  They are well worth a look and you can see them here  Thanks Murray 🙂

20 out of a possible 30 swimmers qualified for their winter badge on the first possible day, that’s today, the first day of the 7th week of winter.  To see who they are please click here

There are still another 446 people on target to qualify who have already started their winter swims.  Plus you’ll be thrilled to know it’s still not too late to start… with 53 days and 8 weeks of winter left to go !!  To qualify you only need to swim 20 times over a minimum of 7 different weeks – easy hey 🙂 Complete all of your qualifying swims without a wetsuit and get your ‘winter without wetsuit’ badge too (badges cost $10 each).

3 swimmers enjoyed the pre-dawn lap and saw a beautiful big smooth ray that was this big…

7 swimmers also continued on for a double afterwards.

The next monthly special B&B dinner at Bluewater is on Monday 30th July, bookings are essential so please book in by clicking here  Dinner is $20 each including shared entrees, a selection of mains to choose (incl vegetarian option), corkage (for byo wine only) plus a little thank you from each of us to the staff !  All beers (including 4 pines) and desserts only $5.  We will have the whole restaurant to ourselves if enough of us book in.  It was a fantastic night last month so don’t miss out.

Water Temperature 17.5
Air Temperature 8.0
Sunrise 7.00am
Sunset 5.01pm
Low Tide: 6.20am
High Tide: 12.36pm

To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here