109 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
Beautiful is back, what a superb morning ! In fact you could be forgiven for forgetting it’s winter, it’s so mild at the moment 🙂
Gone are the days when swimming just involved a cossie and a pair of goggles… the more equipment the better… 😉
But of course if you can find it in pink it’s even better, pink ear plugs ! Brilliant 🙂
It’s not just about swimming though, there’s the Aqua Dance as we wait at the point…
Followed by the Shelly Stance…
Then it’s time to see what aquatic delights we can find on the way back
My first Port Jackson sighting for the year 🙂
A twig fish
Some fluoro cord 🙁
And two schools of Garfish 🙂
Plus the newest edition to Maureen’s, and hence our family, the lovely bold & beautiful, House 🙂
Happy birthday to John Storch and Sean Mullaney today !! 🙂
Lots of swimmers are enjoying these beautiful calm conditions with 6 people enjoying a second lap into Shelly, Peter E led a group up to Queensie after the regular swim and a few swam down from Dee Why.
The latest bravery award goes to Ted, with the development of his Jimble sting from a couple of days ago – ouch !
But… don’t be detered, it’s not that bad… hey Ted… he’s still swimming after all 😉 Plus, tomorrow is going to be excellent with lots of sun and no surf !!! Don’t miss it 🙂
Water Temperature 17.1
Air Temperature 10.0
Sunrise 6.58am
Sunset 5.04pm
Low Tide: 10.15am
High Tide: 4.58pm
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12 comments
Gaetan
14/07/2012 at 11:29 am
great photos!!! And you are right Jules, the water temperature is not bad at all compare to what we had 2 weeks ago!
Happy birthday to Sean and John!
Check out this unexpected “big a** shark” (as she says) catch, quite impressive!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmy-6gMjUZY
Rainer
14/07/2012 at 11:55 am
Great photos.. Especially the twig fish. They are so rare and notoriously hard to capture on camera! Are the jimbles gone yet?
Little Sarah, sorry i missed this morning. Promise I’ll be there tomorrow morning!! 🙂
John
14/07/2012 at 12:10 pm
Ted,take care with that jimble sting turned blisters. Happy Birthday John and Sean. A good representation today of the
‘Johns’on the attendance page,including Jon Mc.
John
14/07/2012 at 12:21 pm
Thanks Gaetan, Jules and all for the Birthday wishes!
Rosemary, thanks for the Birthday coffee, I owe you one.
Magnificent photos as always, Jules
Scary, scary shark, not like our little ‘pets’ at all!!!!
Pacific Jules
14/07/2012 at 12:43 pm
Glad our sharks know that it’s a “no take” aquatic marine reserve that we swim in !
Happy Bastille Day too btw Gaetan, Francois, Cathy Q and all our other French swimmers 🙂
Pacific Jules
14/07/2012 at 12:59 pm
Two whales off Manly, almost swimming distance out !!!! 🙂
Alyson
14/07/2012 at 1:07 pm
Ouch ted! that looks “ouchies” as Jules would say 😉 see you all tomorrow!
Little Sarah
14/07/2012 at 1:11 pm
Looked like quite a number of huge whales just passed North Steyne, lots of breaching…..will be heading for Curl Curl by now…
Rainer, that’s a date for tomorrow:-)
Alyson
14/07/2012 at 1:22 pm
lets hope the only sharks other than dusky’s and wobby’s are thr port jacksons. Lucky we don’t live on the west coast – http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/surfer-taken-by-shark-north-of-perth/story-e6frg12c-1226425990874
Sharon
14/07/2012 at 3:25 pm
Loving my new pink earplugs!! Although they didnt make me as fast as I hoped!
Sam
15/07/2012 at 11:03 am
That’s well scary. Happy b day guys!!
Darren Mcandrews
18/01/2013 at 9:24 am
Wow! I think my girlfriend would’ve been thrilled to see this event! She just loves PINK so much! She would certainly dig those pink ear plugs, and I think she’ll want to swim just to have a reason to get them. Think it’s a good idea, though, to protect her ears from infection. By the way, you guys just showed that men can rock the color pink!