10/01/2021 Some days Sundays are meant to be like this

Above: Welcome to this blog of the 8th day of January, 2021. What a a fabulous day. Blue sky with a single puff of cloud.

 

Above: At midnight on Sunday, we welcomed our northern neighbours back to the fold. It’s great to have Bold and Beautiful swimmers return. Matt from North Narabeen is one of those who has returned from “north of the wall” and who was keen rejoin his 6.30 colleagues.

 

My word for today day was spontaneous. I asked swimmers to tell me about something spontaneous that have done in their lives or give me a spontaneous quote.

 

 

Above: Derek gave a spontaneous “Thank you that I am alive and get to enjoy this day”.

 

 

Above: Is this man spontaneous or what? Sean headed for a surf down south then climbed Mt Budawang before returning last night so that he could have a swim and dash off to mow the lawn.

 

Above:  Richard’s (left) recent act of spontaneity was to buy a campervan – he spotted this bargain on the Bold and Beautiful blog. Danny had an eye on more immediate plans with a spontaneous purchase of a new pair of goggles.

 

 

Above: Sabrina’s recent act of spontaneity was to accompany Brendan on a recent massive 10km swim. That’s a great achievement.

 

 

Above: Jo and Jen. Jen remembered she spontaneously did a double and never looked back.

 

Above: Alan, pictured not being dragged by Bindi, says his favourite spontaneous moment was “being dragged to Queenscliff by Inge and enjoying every minute of it”.

 

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All the stats:

Temperature (at 6.45am) air: 18

Water temp: 21.3

100 swimmers by 10am (at various start times)

200 swimmers by 1pm 

Visibility: Pretty, pretty good

Stingers: 0

Number of people who mentioned the word Bulawayo in a conversation: 2 (may escalate without notice).

 

Above: Traffic at the point. Please remember to give way to those swimming into the sun to avoid headon collisions.

 

Above: Anne and Colby. Anne spontaneously drove a different route to the swim and managed to get a parking spot right next to Far West. You can’t fault that for the perfect spot.

 

Above: Mal spontaneously had this magnifficent Shumba tattooed on his chest a few years ago. Shumba is the Zimbabwean word for Lion. Mal originally comes from the city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. I grew up in the bush and this was our nearest city!

 

 

 

Above: Lou surprised her brother a few year ago by spontaneously flying to Milan, Italy for the weekend to celebrate his 30th Birthday. Magnifica!

 

Above: Jeff enjoying an early morning brew. His advice on how to do something spontaneous – “Just smile!” He says that what connects us and strengthens us as a group.

 

Above:  And if you really want do something spontaneous today – take your dog skateboarding.

 

Wishing our friend Paul McDonald a speedy recovery after he had a nasty encounter with a rogue wave.

 

I might call it a day there. Unlike the beautiful weather this Typepad blogging sotware is being very uncooperative and crashing on every picture.

I look forward to you adding your acts of spontaneity in the comments section.

Stay healthy and remember it ain’t over till it’s over.

Oosty