Over 94 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Fantastic for a Monday !
Rainer’s finally worked out it’s worth getting out of bed to arrive at swimming 10 minutes earlier… more blog tarting opportunities, especially in the smurf suit.
He seems only marginally phased that Michael’s tickling his armpit.
A superb morning !
John’s patting himself on the back for having already completed the Bolderdash as we jump in for the the 7am swim 🙂
with not a cloud in the sky, and a beautiful, calm sea
Well, until a couple of random head height waves gently rolled through
Sarah’s concentrating hard to hold those flippers streamline as the waves come at her 😉
Scott’s just plain happy to be back in the water, as we are to have him back – yeh 🙂
It was lovely and calm at the point.
Well maybe not for Arthur who was being dunked by Cathy 😉
A nice, calm swim across the bay until about 200m from Shelly when the backwash was in full flow due to the high tide ricocheting back off the walkway. Always makes it fun 😉
Matt didn’t notice, he was too busy racing his eldest son, Josh who joined us for his first swim today 🙂
Thumbs up for another great swim !
11 swimmers enjoyed a lovely Bolderdash, 14 early lappers to Shelly, 10 doublers and Brian B and John B did ‘the lot’.
That’s it now, well, until tomorrow !! Same time, same place, see you all then 🙂
Some great photos from Simon this morning. I love the first one !! Guess the bottoms ??
Lovely photos of us all taken yesterday from a different view, from Manly surf club balcony, courtesy of Fred Thorpe. Thanks Fred ! Photographer today, swimmer tomorrow ?? We hope so 🙂
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All important B&B social functions coming up:
- B&B CHRISTMAS PARTY Wed, 12th Dec from 6.30pm upstairs at The Steyne Hotel !
It’s Retro theme so dress up and come and boogie the night away.
If anyone knows a good retro DJ (or band) that would like to come and
play for us as our very own Warwick is sadly unavailable. Party food
will be provided so please let us know if you can come by booking in here to help plan the catering. Drinks can be purchased from behind the bar throughout the night. - November’s monthly happy hour
drinks and nibbles at Murray’s is on this Wednesday, 14th Nov from 6.30pm, so please rsvp here so we have an idea of how many people are coming to help plan for the catering and come and join in the fun ! - November’s B&B special
monthly Bluewater Dinner has to be moved from Mon 26th Nov to Wed 28th
Nov as Bluewater are lucky enough to have their own Christmas Party that
night. If you’ve already booked in for the Monday and
you can still come on the Wednesday you don’t need to do anything. If
you now can’t come please let me know. If you want to come but haven’t
book in yet, please do so now, here !
Water Temperature 18.8
Air Temperature 14.0
Sunrise 5.45am
Sunset 7.33pm
High Tide: 7.21am
Low Tide: 1.45pm
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25 comments
Rainer
12/11/2012 at 11:02 am
Great swim! What a fantastic way to start the week!
You know it’s a good morning when you scored 2x prominent blog appearances without making a complete fool of yourself..
Stephen – the wife is asking whether I can take the smurf suit home for a couple of nights?
See you all tomorrow!
PS: Second bottom is Lesley!!
Snorkelling Sharon
12/11/2012 at 11:31 am
Haha Rainer – I love the blog appearances this morning, I dont think I’m going to go that far to get points on the spreddy!!!
The smurf suit is certainly doing the rounds!
Lucy
12/11/2012 at 11:39 am
Looking good Rainer!!
Brad 1.0 said he would like to wear the blue suit tomorrow, is it available?
Welcome back Scott!!
lesley
12/11/2012 at 11:50 am
J$3$S CH*&%T – I did not wanna see a close up of my butt!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha
Slow Ian
12/11/2012 at 11:50 am
I’m no expert when it comes to bottoms….but the top gives it away. It is definitely Lesley! I’d know that top anywhere.
Slow Ian
12/11/2012 at 11:52 am
That’s not a close-up. I’m sure Simon could zoom in closer tomorrow. Beware the Phantom Photographer!
Emer Byrne
12/11/2012 at 11:56 am
Rainer – love your new Spring/Summer look! Hoping to get back into swimming this week – maybe Wednesday & Saturday – see you all then. Perk bottom on right is Lesleys for sure!
Rob
12/11/2012 at 12:09 pm
Oh dear Rainer…I have no words.
Looking forward to swimming on Wednesday morning…. 🙂
Elaine de Jager
12/11/2012 at 12:27 pm
You are such a blog tart Rainer! What are you going to do tomorrow to get on the blog. Thought it might be Stephen Coulter next to Lesley but L doesn’t usually stand next to him incase anyone thinks they are married 😉
Anyone Boldercrawling tomorrow?
Slowest Shaun
12/11/2012 at 1:59 pm
Just a little clarification, How many points is Rainer on now Sharon?
Slowest Shaun
12/11/2012 at 2:02 pm
I did a solo 610 to Shelley this morning.
Got to call – “Lets Go” at the point after checking I had not gone past the poles.
Got to sing happy birthday to my imaginary friend after waiting for myself to catch up.
Announced that if I wanted to do a double to meet me at the point.
Scoffed at the double call then swam back coming 1st. (and last)
To sum the day up – Nice butt Leslie!!! haha
lesley
12/11/2012 at 4:09 pm
swimming has ruined my ass! :-DD
lesley
12/11/2012 at 4:10 pm
what the…???
If you promise to go I will Elaine…we can turn up and decide? If not go for a run on the beach and then do 7am??
Rainer
12/11/2012 at 4:47 pm
Yes Sharon, what’s my score after today’s feat?
Must be way ahead of Emer and Rob at this stage. Might even lie low for a while to give them a chance to catch up..
Rainer
12/11/2012 at 4:51 pm
No worries Lucy. I’ll bring it down tomorrow.
Might give it a quick rinse tonight, as I’ve been wearing it in the office all morning.
Rainer
12/11/2012 at 4:53 pm
Emer / Rob – look forward to seeing you Wednesday morning. Expect some superb blog tarting. As you can see I’ve raised the bar while you were away..
Rainer
12/11/2012 at 5:00 pm
Forecast is for a strong Southerly tomorrow morning. 47kph. You’ll be quick up to Queensie, that’s for sure.. 🙂
Simon
12/11/2012 at 5:32 pm
I focused the camera on the contrasting B&B colours for what I thought was a cute picture of Lesely and Ian F (judging by the comments most people liked it.
BTW I’m also planning to do the Bolderdash swim tomorrow.
Slowest Shaun
12/11/2012 at 5:39 pm
Yes Sharon, do you actually have Rainers score? Or is this the biggest scandal since Storchy ticked his name without swimming????
Anna Alvsdotter
12/11/2012 at 6:04 pm
😀
Little Sarah Abbott
12/11/2012 at 7:21 pm
Rainer, great job! A proper model at last and now it’ll be so easy to see you:-)
Lesley, ha ha, glad it was your turn and enjoyed Elaine’s wit:-))
“Big Sarah” in Vietnam ….
Pacific Jules
12/11/2012 at 9:37 pm
Good to see u keep the theme alive even when you’re alone SS 😉
Stephen Coulter
12/11/2012 at 10:00 pm
Sharon, I’m reliably informed I featured for 5 minutes on TV in B&B bathers during the Noosa Triathlon show on Sunday – do solo TV appearances in B&B pink get extra spreddy points? 😉
Snorkelling Sharon
13/11/2012 at 10:42 am
Oh my ! I have a confession ..there is a blog spreddy BUT Rainer you are not in it !!!
I am happy to give you 40 points to give you a head start though !!! Unless you have kept your own score ?!!!
Snorkelling Sharon
13/11/2012 at 10:56 am
This is all kinds of wrong! But funny!