51 Bold & Beautiful swimmers
It was just like whale day today: grey skies, drizzling rain, relatively low number of swimmers. The only thing missing was the whale 🙁
We had beautiful water
loads of love
New camera created jewellery… I didn’t know you had ball bearings in your ear Dave 😉
New fashions… Dr John didn’t want to leave the risk of forehead fat to chance.
Alan obviously didn’t think much of the new look though 😉
There’s no stop to the limits or the creativeness of our beautiful blog tarts… the human pyramid wasn’t an empty threat !
If fact it was brilliant, it certainly had excellent spectator value. Rainer and Robbie have obviously been in serious breath hold training and Little Sarah’s balance was exceptional – cirque du soleil here we come 🙂
We had a few one way warriors
and some lovely marine life too:
A Three Barred Porcupine Fish
Our ever prolific and graceful Stingarees
and our permanent point dwelling Estuarine Catfish found by Attracta this morning.
It’s recently had an official name changed to Cobblerfish, yeh right. Once a catfish always a catfish !
Our early-bird swimmers left us a proud little message this morning to say there were 6 of them, all without wetsuits ! Only 2 doublers this morning though; one with, Chris and one without, Michael.
My Mother’s winter whale watching holiday has come to an end as she flies back to good ole blighty this afternoon. Thank you all so very much for making her feel so welcome and special, she’s really had the most wonderful time ! Elaine and Lesley captured her holiday perfectly in their leaving gift which they presented to Joan at brekkie this morning… 🙂
A call for a team swimmer in the Noosa Tri… a couple of our blog tarts Sharon and Corinne were going to form a team in the Noosa triathlon on Sunday 4th November. Corinne on the bike, and Sharon the run and swim. Unfortunately Sharon is under doctors orders not to participate due to bulging discs in her neck – ouch 🙁 They have found a runner but are still looking for a swimmer to do the 1.5km swim… Any takers to be part of this B&B Blog Tart Elite Triathlon Team ??? Check out full details on the event here
Don’t forget… if you receive the daily blog directly to your inbox, open the email, click on the date or title of the day’s blog in the main body of the email and it will take you to the actual blog where you can read other people’s comments for the day and maybe even make your own. Come on, don’t be shy, you know you want to… well we want you to 😉
Happy birthday to Alyson Mayer today !
Oh… and we’re gonna have a WWW brekkie on Sunday morning as we ‘Wish Wilf Well’ as he heads off to Auckland on Monday to participate on the most senior category at the Triathlon World Championships the following weekend 🙂
Water Temperature 17.5
Air Temperature 12.0
Sunrise 6.21am
Sunset 7.04pm
Low Tide: 9.12am
High Tide: 3.42pm
To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
31 comments
Joan Isbill
09/10/2012 at 11:02 am
Thank you all to my wonderful friends for making my holiday so good. Thank you Lesley and Elaine for giving me a great surprise. I just love it thank you.
I shall miss you all but hope to see you all again very soon. Xx
François Pradel
09/10/2012 at 11:24 am
Fantastic first picture today. The colours are amazing!
Little Tiger
09/10/2012 at 11:27 am
Farewell Joan, safe journey home.
Fabulous photos, especially all those men. WOW!!!
Lucy
09/10/2012 at 11:44 am
I nearly burst into tears when I saw ‘whale’ in the title!! Hahahahaha good one Jules!! Bye Joan xx
lesley
09/10/2012 at 11:55 am
Glad u liked the picture Joan 🙂 …. You are a good sport! it has been great having you here… See you soon xxxx
I Loved the porcupine fish ..so cute!
I think I got 4 points on the spreddy today!.:-D. And as Robbie pointed out Ian (liddle/liddel?) managed to even get a point in Joan’s men picture collage!!
Andrew Drinky
09/10/2012 at 11:58 am
Have a great trip back home Joan.
Thankyou for the special farewell hug this morning!
Anna Alvsdotter
09/10/2012 at 12:07 pm
And I too nearly burst into tears when I saw today’s title. “Could of”!! Julie, I’ll swap you a swimming lesson for a grammar lesson. Jeez.
Good bye, lovely Joan. Hopefully we’ll have you back again very soon. xx
Sharon
09/10/2012 at 12:07 pm
Lovely to have great chats with you Joan and showing off my piccies of my beautiful niece!! Say hello to ole blighty for me and keep it warm(?) for my return at Christmas !
Sharon
09/10/2012 at 12:09 pm
As Blog Spreddy Master I get to decide on the points 🙂
If I can’t recognise you, you dont count !!!
(Lesley’s white rashie and snorkels are a hot favourite for ease of spotting!)
Elaine
09/10/2012 at 12:18 pm
We loved having you here Joan. We’ll have to get an even bigger photo montage when you come back as some men might feel left out ;)We’ll keep in touch on FB!
I think I managed 7 points on the spreddy today, sorry folks, and that was without getting in on the Human Pyramid. Well done Little Sarah, that yoga can come in useful!!
Beautiful porcupine fish Jules. Where was he? Another fantastic swim. Never be deceived by grey skies, it’s always worth it!
Joan Isbill
09/10/2012 at 12:24 pm
Thank you will do my best for you. X
Pacific Jules
09/10/2012 at 12:24 pm
Well… I wanted to write “Coulda” but that just didn’t look right 😉
Joan Isbill
09/10/2012 at 12:25 pm
Thank you. Look forward to meeting up again soon, I hope. X
Pacific Jules
09/10/2012 at 12:25 pm
Porci was just after we set off from the point 🙂
Joan Isbill
09/10/2012 at 12:25 pm
Bye, see you soon x
Joan Isbill
09/10/2012 at 12:27 pm
Just loved it x
Joan Isbill
09/10/2012 at 12:29 pm
Pleasure all mine! . I’m looking forward to the welcome back hug!!!!! X
Anna Alvsdotter
09/10/2012 at 12:30 pm
Right. Let’s coordinate our timetables for that grammar/swim lesson swap.
Joan Isbill
09/10/2012 at 12:31 pm
Can’t wait Elaine! Hate to leave anyBODY out! X
Joan Isbill
09/10/2012 at 12:32 pm
Hope so Anna. Have good time with your family. X
Rainer
09/10/2012 at 1:00 pm
Go the Human Pyramid!!
Sharon – requesting extra points for the blog tarts who participated in this mornings pyramid.
Great swim. As usual. See you all tomorrow!!
Rainer
09/10/2012 at 1:02 pm
Farewell Joan!
Have a great trip home. Was lovely meeting you.. look forward to making it onto the photo collage next time!!
Rainer
09/10/2012 at 1:03 pm
Jules, thanks for supplying me with second pink cap today. Ripped through my first one after only 3.5 months.. exactly 50 swims. Promise to take better care of the second one. Will try Lesley’s powder treatment!!
Stephen
09/10/2012 at 2:09 pm
I hope you’re scoring me. In at least photo 1 today – pink bum between ALyson and Elaine!
Stephen
09/10/2012 at 2:10 pm
PS I hope I got bonus spreddy points for overseas appearances in Kauao, Maui, Waikiki, Long Beach, Seal Beach and Naples Island 😉
Sharon
09/10/2012 at 3:30 pm
Rainer you probably ripped it as you strained ot get in yet another shot!!!!!
Rainer
09/10/2012 at 4:03 pm
Sooo worth it!!! 🙂
Alyson
09/10/2012 at 4:17 pm
Safe trip home Joan, looking forward to seeing you again soon ( as I am sure all the men are too) 😉
John
09/10/2012 at 5:40 pm
Farewell Joan, have a safe trip back home. Unable to attend today, so could not say goodbye personally.
Rob Byrne
09/10/2012 at 5:54 pm
So much fun, is there a better way to start your day?
Bon Vayage Joan, your lovely smile will be missed until we see you again in December! Our human pyramid was in your honour… !!!!
Bella
09/10/2012 at 9:33 pm
Really loved meeting you Joan. Send our special love to Norfolk, look forward to seeing you out here again before too long.
Bella and Duncan xx