Over 73 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
3 hardy souls; Evan, Len and Miles brightened up the dark and gloomy morning with a 6am swim to Queenscliff and back, now that’s pretty good going !!
There was lots of bright colour and good cheer as all the 7am swimmers entered the water this morning too 🙂
The swim was warm ‘n toasty, breezy ‘n bumpy with some fun waves to speed us to our well earned coffee.
It was great to have Stephen back in the water with us today, although we will miss your lovely land based photos Stephen.
There is one good thing about our summer, or lack there of, this year… there has been a noticeable lack of blue bottles !! 🙂 Unfortunately though, a couple of rogue bluies made their unwelcome presence known to a couple of swimmers this morning, it seems they clung on pretty tight too – ouch !
Lesley and her flippers wore the Garmin this morning, but… as I was admiring Lesley’s statistics (of the swim that is) I clumsily pressed start again, which has resulted in a lovely recording of the swim, brekkie and a walk – whoops…
Lesley’s Flipper swim, brekkie and walk… by pacificjules at Garmin Connect – Details
The usual Summer Saturday 6km badge swim is on tomorrow morning, continuing on from the regular 7am swim. There are only 3 saturday’s left to qualify for your 2012 badge, so don’t miss out, you know you can do it !!
Happy birthday to Bruce Paterson and Rosslyn Skinner today 🙂
As a reminder Bruce is celebrating his birthday this Sunday afternoon and you are all invited.
The formal proceedings referred to on the invitation include the story of Bruce’s life as in “This is your Life”, followed by an invitation for anyone would like to to speak, recite, sing or whatever takes your fancy, kinda like an ‘open mike’ only there is no mike…
Water Temperature 23.4
Air Temperature 20.5
Sunrise 6.25am
Sunset 7.54pm
High Tide: 10.48am
Low Tide: 5.10pm
9 comments
Lesley
February 10, 2012 at 1:11 pm
cough.. cough..ahem.. I did press stop at the end but there was some pressing of buttons for after-swim-analysis by a certain person who knows who they (he) are/is!! 😉 And as I suspected I swim in a fairly straight line to Shelly! But so slow – 6kms per hour compared to Jules top speed of 16km!! Thanks Jules – will try without flippers next time….
Pacific Jules
February 10, 2012 at 1:26 pm
You are quite right Lesley, I will edit above and make sure it’s clear that it was clumsy fingers who made the error and not you… 🙁
Cathie
February 10, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Bruce – wishing you a really lovely birthday with lots of cake and a few bubbles!!
Pacific Jules
February 10, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Happy birthday to Bruce and Rosslyn. Look forward to Bruce’s celebration on Sunday afternoon, and hope to see many of you there 🙂
Anna Alvsdotter
February 10, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Ooops, this comment above was from me. Having ‘helped’ Jules with her blog this morning I was apparently still signed in as Pacific Jules.
xx
Anna
Cathie
February 10, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Sorry Rosslyn – I hope you get lots of cake and some bubbles too!!!
Manly Police
February 10, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Thank You for the evidentiary gps map of Ms Coulter’s exploits this morning. We are concerend at her tresspassing into private property across Dungowan lane and had disturbing reports of unusual goings on at times and location identical to the digital trail you have today published. You may present yourself at Manly Police Station anytime before 6pm today or we shall do a house call Ms Coulter.
Anna Alvsdotter
February 10, 2012 at 3:14 pm
😀
Lesley
February 10, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Happily if the officer in charge is hot! ;-D