40 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
Beautiful flat conditions this morning, with a colorful sunrise.
So many specacular photos courtesy of James Goins this morning, in fact sooo many we had to run 8 of them as I couldnt possibly cull them, it was just too hard to choose and was further complicated by the fact that I paddled a board over and borrowed James’s camera on the way back to try to get a slightly different view of our swims, so of course a couple of those had to feature too 😉
Check out the amazing sunrise shots, in fact I think they are two of the nicest sunrise shots ever ! Followed by one of Christy McLean and Nicolee Goins at the start of our swim, along with a silhouette of Iain’s beautiful curly locks, then the stunning pink rocks 🙂
On the way back to manly there is a great pink head and pink bottom photo of Michael Christie, Stephen Coulter and Chris Cameron-Doe in the foreground with many other pink caps dotted around in the background, followed by a couple of group shots.
It’s the start of a new week today so there should be a few new badge qualifies today… certainly Bruce Paterson and Nicolee Goins knew it was their badge qualifying swim today 🙂
3 swimmers also completed a bonus early lap. I’m sure there will be a couple of takers if anyone wants to do an extra lap at 6.20am tomorrow as it’s only 12 days until the 8km Magnetic Island swim.
The majority of the currently active swimmers have their photo up on the wall of fame which means we don’t have too many pink dolphins on our daily attendance records these days which is great, however, there are still a couple so if you don’t yet have your photo up please see Michael after any swim and he will take a great photo for you, thank you.
Happy birthday to Christy McLean today 🙂
Water Temperature 18.2 degrees.
Air Temperature 11 degrees.
Sunrise 6.57am.
Sunset 5.06pm.
High Tide: 10.21am.
Low Tide: 4.00pm.
24 comments
Iain
July 18, 2011 at 11:04 am
Mich was eager to report of a coffee an apparent dolphin siting off the bower.
Michel
July 18, 2011 at 11:10 am
Haha – apparently it was a whale with a fin 🙂
Gaétan
July 18, 2011 at 11:21 am
nice pics indeed, beautiful sunrise!
neil
July 18, 2011 at 11:37 am
truley beauitful swim this morning,
where is Wilf
Pacific Jules
July 18, 2011 at 11:40 am
Funny you should mention that Neil, Wilf made it to coffee today which was great, hopefully we will see him in the water again very soon 🙂
tim
July 18, 2011 at 11:56 am
I know you all miss me terribly so despite a bad dose of MAN FLU and bronchitis i will be back in the water soon.
I need to get fit so please feel free to ridicule me or hassle me if i dont run/swim/etc when asked to do so.
After a week of no swimming i can honestly say i missed it.
(PS, Jules, now i know you can run to curly you have no excuses ever again)
Iain
July 18, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Small whale.. Big dolphin….
What’s the difference?
John
July 18, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Great conditions for our swim with nice sunshine as we assembled at the point. Happy birthday Christy.
Michael [EX CI]
July 18, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Ok I’m up for another early swim tomorrow at 6.20am. Its tipped to be sunny, so should be reasonably light for a change. Any other takers???
Pacific Jules
July 18, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Yes Timberlie Tough Man, you need to get back in the water and of course we miss you oh and Linda 🙂
It will make you get better faster you know, as no self respecting bug will stay inside someone who submerges themselves in refreshing water for half an hour plus each morning…. !
Excuse me, South Curly AND BACK !!!!
Can’t walk today and was up most of the night, but hey I’m sure it was worth it as Claire prompted me half way back: “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. That was the only thing that got me up that bitch of a hill on the way back I can tell you 😉
Little Tiger
July 18, 2011 at 12:19 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Christy, have a great day.
Iain
July 18, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Iain yes
tim
July 18, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Quote of the day….” I Can’t walk today and was up most of the night”
Pacific Jules
July 18, 2011 at 1:15 pm
hahaha 😉 Sound fair to me…
kelly
July 18, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Would love to see you at 6.20am…. sorry works calling…. miss it, even thou I complain the whole time see u on the weekend. xx
Stephen Coulter
July 18, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Why not!
Nick
July 18, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Yee Haa, better get the swims in now .. There is a storm coming!!
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/calm-before-the-storm-20110718-1hkvb.html
Nick
July 18, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Happy Birthday Christy!!
Rob
July 18, 2011 at 4:51 pm
If you promise it won’t be pitch dark like the first time I swam at 6.20am I should make an appearance!
Michael [EX CI]
July 18, 2011 at 6:02 pm
I promise. What temperature would you like???
Stephen Coulter
July 18, 2011 at 7:07 pm
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Christy
July 18, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Thank you John!! 🙂
Christy
July 18, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Thank you Nick yay :-)))
Christy
July 18, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Beautiful pictures! Epic sunrise! Amazing way to start the day! I LOVE Bold and the Beautiful!!! xoxox Gratitude 🙂