52 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
3 of our distance demons; Brendan, Gaetan and James had a lovely swim to Freshie and back nice and early as we can see from the 2 photos, thanks James. Where were you Cae… hope that doona didn’t get you again 😉 🙂
The seas have settled making it lovely for a swim. All we need now is that summer sun…
Attracta saw our big Smooth Ray again this morning, right in near half way beach. Apparently it was playing around with a littler ray, swimming up vertically, they were spinning around each other so Attract got a great view of their little faces, she said it was like a three year old had drawn them on. How cool !!! Hopefully we can get a photo of him soon.
Congratulations to Ian Forster who has just broke through 200km on our Pacific Challenge today.
Our annual Christmas Adventure Swim is this Sunday !! Leaving Manly at 7am to swim to South Curl Curl, it’s a 3.25km swim. Everyone one is most welcome; all swimmers, land contingent and craft are more than welcome and most appreciated !! In fact we would like to encourage as many people as people to join us on craft as well as a couple of people via cars would be fantastic… Chris Cameron-Doe has offered to be one logistics vehicle, if anyone else is keen that would be great… please let us know, thank you.
Tim’s fact of the day is going to focus on fun and interesting facts about our very own Pacific Ocean for the next two weeks, starting with: “The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean in the world.”
Bolderdash tomorrow morning, in the water at 5.50am. It’s 3km there and back and 4.5km if you continue on with the Shelly swim afterwards. A great confidence booster just before the Christmas Adventure Swim on Sunday… you agree… great, see you in the morning then 😉
Happy Birthday to David Ingham and Josephine Kelly today ! Sorry we didn’t sing for you at Shelly Jo, we only just found out from your Mum after brekkie.
Welcome back to Anita and Michael Keelan from their big holiday.
Water Temperature 20.2
Air Temperature 17.5
Sunrise 5.38am
Sunset 8.00pm
High Tide: 10.41am
Low Tide: 5.20pm
7 comments
Slow Ian
December 13, 2011 at 10:43 am
If the Bolderdash is just too early for you, but you want to swim before 7 am, one or two of us will be doing an early lap to Shelly (and back) tomorrow morning. We will be leaving at 6.20 am if anyone wants to join us (at your own risk of course).
Slow Ian
December 13, 2011 at 10:47 am
Michael, what happened to Lara’s photo. 52 people and she is the only pink dolphin.
Pacific Jules
December 13, 2011 at 11:00 am
What pink dolphin ?? I see 52 happy smiling faces – how good is that… 52 swimmers and not one pink dolphin 😉
Slow Ian
December 13, 2011 at 11:40 am
Well done!
Little Tiger
December 13, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Nice photo of the Nth Steyne surfboat, crewed by Marlies & co.
Michael [EX CI]
December 13, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Looks like GREAT conditions for the Bolderdash tomorrow!! Completely southerly swell and wind with sun!
Should be great.
Cae Tolman
December 13, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Hi.
James, Gaetan and I are meeting at 520 for a 525 start to Freshie with a few lengths of of Freshie rock pool thrown in for good measure, before meeting the Bolderdashers at QC about 625-630… Anyone else up for it?