I was so ‘busy minding’ this Howly dog who ran off attached to it’s owners bag! …that I was ill prepared for today’s blog (that’s my excuse anyway!) 😀
Yeah you won’t BELIEVE it, but it was lovely AGAIN today!! Water still ok, not TOO cold!!
It’s great how we all adjusted to moving from the surf club and just make do with whatever is available….bags by the dog-wee tree and all 🙂
Once a week Rainer aka Lips does Community Service and takes his special friend for a swim with BnB.
Some people can swim so fast, to and from Shelly in 20 minutes – others wear masks and snorkels and take their time. Some with wetsuits and flippers and others au-naturale………
….even people with one arm in the air… either way ALL are welcome to join us because the ocean is for everyone to enjoy!
Just when we thought we’d seen all there was to see 😀 – another unusual jelly was spotted at the point!
Rusty became an Australian Citizen today! Congrats Mate!
Lori…. those Monday Nights sessions with Nick are paying off!
This jimble got me on the knee! It has a fish inside! By the way remember TURTLES eat jimbles so we want to keep them around!
blue groper…
Jane…
Jane groping Robster 😀
All arrived back safely and unaccounted for! 😀
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A message from Jules posted yesterday on Comments:
How lucky are we !!! Seriously to swim in the best part of the world every single morning with wonderful like minded friends, and then to top it off with the absolute privilege of swimming with such an amazing array of marine life and in their natural habitat. Really we are just soooo privileged.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HOWEVER, RESPECT THAT WE ARE IN THEIR TERRITORY, PLEASE SWIM AT A SAFE DISTANCE FROM ALL OUR MARINE LIFE SO THEY’RE FREE TO SWIM WHERE THEY CHOOSE.
Also, turtles need to come to the surface to breathe, so please ensure you don’t crowd them, so they can come up safely when they choose.
If our beautiful marine life swim to you, fabulous, enjoy it, but please ensure collectively we allow them enough space so they enjoy the experience too, that way they’re more likely to hang around so everyone can get a chance to see them, plus the creature might come back again tomorrow too if we’re lucky.
THANK YOU
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OOH and please come to Murray’s TONIGHT as Ian has a special announcement about a NEW BADGE we are doing!!
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The Stats
Regulars: 123
Newbies: 1
Water Temp: 20.4 degrees
Air Temp: 10
Sunrise: 6.40am
Sunset: 5.02pm
By for now: Lesbutt 😀
34 comments
Lips
15/05/2013 at 11:33 am
Lovely blog Lesbutt, despite disturbing pictures of wetsuitless Rob and a cruel LSA joke. It takes guts to make fun of the Triad Queen. If I was in your flippers, I would lie low for a few weeks.
Had no idea turtles eat jimbles. I ate a jimble once..
Lips
15/05/2013 at 11:34 am
Dear Ian – I ticked this morning, but not showing up in attendance. Can you fix? Thanks!
Little Sarah aka LSA aka HKTQ
15/05/2013 at 11:34 am
Love that jimble with the fish inside! So clear and beautiful. Lovely freak jelly too!
As for that “special friend” – 6.59 (see the clock) and trying to drag Lips away from the Paparazzi. A daily (not weekly) free freak show! At Shelly we repeat it all over again:-))
Little Sarah aka LSA aka HKTQ
15/05/2013 at 12:02 pm
I notice Shaun’s tick has been erased as well. I think it’s the rule discussed at breakfast – those who are in column 1 or approaching it and don’t swim “all the way” get obliterated:-)
See you tomorrow for the next Freak Show! They’ve had a free run, now we should look to selling tickets!
Little Sarah aka LSA aka HKTQ
15/05/2013 at 12:12 pm
On the contrary, love her media attention. Relying on Lesbutt to sell the tickets (see below)!
The best show will be on Friday for the early boldercrawl, so we’d better take her along to join the rest of the paparazzi who’ll be following the show starting with the freakish dragging of you into the water at 6.14!
Elaine de Jager
15/05/2013 at 12:17 pm
You are funny Lesbutt! Love the photo of Lips with his ‘Special Friend’! Can we have some ‘special friend’ blog tarts for tomorrow’s blog? It looks beautiful…again.Remember to come tomorrow folks because Thursday swims are just ‘gobsmackingly amazing’. (That is the weird expression I used on my radio interview after the swim with the whale!
Little Sarah aka LSA aka HKTQ
15/05/2013 at 12:57 pm
All the ‘special friends’ will be there for that gobsmackingly amazing Thursday swim. Hard to compete with the fish and sunrises these days, but will do our best:)
Slow Ian
15/05/2013 at 1:01 pm
Yes you read it correctly! We have a NEW BADGE! I will be at Murrays tonight to reveal how you can obtain this amazing piece of fabric. I will have a graphic representation of the badge as well! Don’t miss out. Murray’s have a new winter menu which is available at 10% off to B&Bs with the pink discount card. See you there.
Lesbutt
15/05/2013 at 1:55 pm
I know that’s not what you had in mind when you set up that photo LSA – but i swear that’s how it came out! 😀
Jane
15/05/2013 at 3:53 pm
Wonderful jelly pic Leswee. What an amazing and beautiful creature it is. I can’t match it to anything in my Invertebrates text, so will show it to Stephen Keable at the OzMus tomorrow for ID.
Jane
15/05/2013 at 3:56 pm
Congratulations Russell! You’ll find it’s much quicker flying in from OS now.
mauricio
15/05/2013 at 4:14 pm
It’s been a while that I don’t upload new videos to the blog but thought today’s video deserved to be here.
Hope you enjoy…
http://youtu.be/kgf_EjEXSgI
Jane
15/05/2013 at 4:30 pm
Beautiful, Mauricio. Best Dusky Whaler shots ever! Can I send it to Mark?
Cheers jane
Jalna
15/05/2013 at 4:49 pm
Beautiful video Mauricio!!
Hoping the size that the Duskies look is just a perspective thing. They look huge.
Jane/ Mauricio do you know the names of the black yellow and white fish; the one with the blue spots and the striped ones next to it? Thanks
John S
15/05/2013 at 4:49 pm
Mauricio
Amazing shots, in the first minute are several fish I’ve never seen in the Bay before!
Shark shots are really cool!
John S
15/05/2013 at 4:56 pm
I agree HKTQ.
Anyone doing the bolderdash then follow-on to Shelly
cutting the corner point to point gets the same treatment! obliterated!
If you don’t eat your meat how can you have any pudding????
Ewok
15/05/2013 at 4:59 pm
Jim and Stephanie (also happy to be called Stef)
DWSS
15/05/2013 at 5:09 pm
I have done a few 1/2 ies in support of John who is growing in confidence.
Sacrificing my swim for the good of all!!Get obliterated” Sarah, really??
That does not sound like the welcoming, inclusive group policy that Jules set up!!
Your going to get nasty blog comments starting to come in, in protest!!
Remember, your talking to the B and B here, not one of your Henchies ready to make a “hit”
I have had a few days off to “taper” ready for the winter rush, so I hope no one has been ticking for me! That would not be right!
Remember, the integrity police can not be bought!!
DWSS
15/05/2013 at 5:10 pm
🙂
DWSS
15/05/2013 at 5:26 pm
HA ha Mr S, yes, the hypotenuse runner needs to watch it. Haha
DWSS
15/05/2013 at 5:44 pm
Fantastic Mauricio!
Ewok
15/05/2013 at 5:45 pm
Mirror Mirror on the wall
Who is the most integritious of all?
😉
mauricio
15/05/2013 at 5:50 pm
Jane,
I ve been planning this video for months now, I just had a feeling that if I stayed quietly laying on the seafloor, they wouldnt disappear, what happened instead was, they came closer and in such a respectful manner that made me feel very priviledged to be living here so close to all this, it was definitely a great experience.
mauricio
15/05/2013 at 5:56 pm
John
I was also surprised to find those colorfull fish, they were just a few meters off shelly beach, its trully a tropical aquarium if we look up close.
mauricio
15/05/2013 at 5:59 pm
Jalna, they are our regular friends just from a bit up closer, I would say 1.2m long, and yes the camera distortion makes them look bigger!
DWSS
15/05/2013 at 6:02 pm
That is new swimmer John, not mr S
Jane
15/05/2013 at 6:19 pm
I sent Mauricio’s video to Mark and this is wht he said:
“Hi all.
Wow. That’s lovely.
I’m going to do my usual thing and request some segments if that is ok.
I would love to embed (or load) separate clips of many of the fishes you have filmed. In fact I can use ‘everything’ J, but don’t need the juvenile butterfly fish and blue groper.
The dusky shark footage is great.
Whatever can be managed! I know this is a big request.
Thank you,
Mark
Congratulations again Mauricio!
fifi
15/05/2013 at 6:28 pm
well. A lovely lovely blog as usual Leswee, and splendid photos. I am glad the jimble didnt get you on the neck again!
Jane
15/05/2013 at 6:30 pm
The sweet little black, yellow and white fish that appears at 20 secs is a juvenile Threadfin Butterflyfish. (The adult has a filament that projects backwards from the dorsal fin).
The beautiful one with the blue spots at 39 is a juvenile White Ear (Parma microlepis). The adult is just plain blackish or greyish with the white blotch on the gill cover.
The striped ones are the Sydney Cardinalfish. Isn’t it cool the way the black and white stripes continue across the eye?
Little Sarah aka LSA aka HKTQ
15/05/2013 at 6:35 pm
Ha, ha, The Triad Queen has special “exemptions” to all rules! Had a word earlier to the Authorities to tell them Lips has some of these too (as long as he doesn’t learn to swim faster than a turtle).
No exemptions, however, for those tick and surfs or tick and jogs to Shelly!!
John S
15/05/2013 at 6:56 pm
Hi Fi
As you know from your own use, Yak Fat not only wards off the cold for those delicate soles not wanting to wear wetsuits but Yak Fat is also great for creating a layer against jimble and other nasty stings. Yak Fat also has an analgesic effect on stings and bites reducing the pain and itch.
See Brenton tomorrow. He’ll be selling his own product ‘Brenton’s Flaming Yak Fat’ (Patent Pending) in 500mm and one litre containers and he’ll demonstrate the application. Note, Yak Fat may cause minor skin discolouration and darkening.
Little Sarah aka LSA aka HKTQ
15/05/2013 at 8:27 pm
Thx so much for sharing!
Hope to meet you soon, Mauricio!
Jalna
15/05/2013 at 8:36 pm
Thanks Jane.
What a shame the White Ear loses those beautiful colours when it grows up.
Haven’t noticed the Cardinalfish before, the stripes are great.
fifi
15/05/2013 at 9:09 pm
Thank God for that: Brenton is such a lifesaver! I was about to resort to sheep lard, but thankfully a whole litre ought to do the trick.
I am especially hoping he will also apply it, but I expect there will be quite a queue. I will try to come early, as implausible as that sounds, so that I am at thr front of the line.
I wonder if the duskies like the trails of yak fat?