Over 40 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
The waves were nowhere near as big as predicted, in fact they were nice little waves so we were able to swim our regular swim to Shelly Beach in stunningly warm water and with surprisingly good visibility.
Then guess what… there was a whale at Shelly Beach ‘just for me’ 🙂 and I got to ride him all the way to Half Way Beach accompanied by my trusty twin flipper engines: Cathy and Izzy who were very closely supported by navigation specialists: Gaetan and Linda and a wonderful entourage of pilot fish known as a truly special group of friends – the B&B.
It makes me teary now reliving it as I write this blog.
THANK U SO MUCH guys, that was
truly a wonderful start to my birthday, in fact it couldn’t have been more perfect, ok possibly only if Mum & Dad had been able to be here to share it with us.
Then a great Brekkie with you all; about 17 renditions of happy birthday, two cakes and a gorgeous necklace of a heart and a fish, 3 lovely shells, a massage voucher and a homemade card from u guys.
This was so thoughtful and obviously took a lot of planning from a group of you. Thank u so much for the best birthday anyone could wish for xx
Happy Birthday to Terry McJannett another B&B swimmer too, so nice that we were able to share our birthdays together in this special way 🙂
Great photo of Michel walking
around Chatswood yesterday with pink balloons – thanks mate x
A couple of videos were taking of the morning, the links will be up on the comments of this blog shortly, thank you all !! xx
Water Temperature 24.1 degrees.
Sunrise 6.02am.
Sunset 8.08pm.
High Tide: 8.07am.
Low Tide: 2.37pm
11 comments
Pacific Jules
January 18, 2011 at 10:50 am
Great videos courtesy of Gaetan, of the post swim celebrations for myself and Terry with the B&B.
Uhmmm, shame I had couldn’t leave my nose alone…. !?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFteH6u8V7M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x7NXyYc0wg
Vicki Harbutt
January 18, 2011 at 10:56 am
Happy 37th Birthday Jules, see you soon. Regards Vicki XX
Linda
January 18, 2011 at 10:57 am
37th Jules, i am sure the candles on your cake are correct they said 29!!!!!
Nick
January 18, 2011 at 10:59 am
Happy Umpteenth Birthday !! 29 is correct , been correct for years ..
Aswilson
January 18, 2011 at 11:02 am
Happy Birthday Jules, sorry i couldn’t be part of the fun this morn, sounds like a blast !! Hope the rest of your day is just as special x
Tacoma Jim
January 18, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Happy Birthday Jules from Nic and myself. We hereby give you rendition #18!! Sorry to be missing out on the nibbles and celebrations but we are with you in spirit. Sounds like a very special morning. Glad the seas settled down for your special day. To all, a good night. Surely, it it will be big …
Annette
January 18, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Happy Birthday Jules, Sounds like a great morning – hope the rest of your day is as wonderful!
Michel
January 18, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Happy Birthday Julie 🙂 glad you liked the whale 🙂
Gaétan
January 18, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I’d really love to see the pictures/videos of Julie riding the whale! Michel, Tim, where are they!? 😉
Happy Birthday Julie, we had a great time this morning, and yes, it was wonderful to be back to Shelly. Warm and clear water, simply lovely!
I also enjoyed the teamwork to help refloat the beached whale, good work guys 🙂
Back to Queenscliff tomorrow? I hope so, it’s been 10 days since we last swam there!
Little Tiger & Cub
January 18, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Hey Jules, Happy Birthday, hope you had a great day. You only look 21!!! Truly, you do.
Mum and Dad
January 22, 2011 at 8:23 pm
What great photos. Well done Michel on walking with the pink balloons through the shopping centre. Wish we could have been there with you all.