19/02/2012 – Another day in Cabbage Tree Bay (= Paradise, yes)

Woo-hoo, 138 swimmers and 20 of those brand new 🙂

A warm welcome to all our new swimmers. You’ll find Bold & Beautiful is a very friendly and inclusive family where everyone is accepted just the way we are. Julie Isbill (our “fearless leader” and birthmother of our daily informal swimming activity) is away today, but will be back on deck tomorrow morning. For your second swim with us, whenever that is, do say hi to Julie if you haven’t met her before, she’s an inspiration and a half.

One of our ‘sometimes swimmer’ joined us again today. Here’s Richard (above on the left) in his pink cap with fellow B&B’ers. Richard is featured in this weekend’s Manly Daily, talking up unicycling as a means of commuting to work: http://manly-daily.whereilive.com.au/news/story/a-wheely-fast-ride-to-work/. Richard is also someone nice to be married to, and I’m talking from experience here 🙂

Congratulations to Julia Baird today. Happy birthday Julia, we all hope your day is full of fun and happiness.

Can you believe it – every day new people find their way to our group, and today as many as 20. Here’s a picture of some friendly gentlemen.

Our group is very diverse with lots of different nationalities. This couple below is Swedish – they’re Daniel and Sophia, and if ever you get a chance to talk to them you’ll feel uplifted because they’re just nice people. Tell them “fina fisken”. They’ll get it.

John Bond (below) took a group of five for a double lap of our bay. Might as well make the most of the fab conditions, or “Swim the bay while the sun shines” as the Manly idiom goes. Unless you want to make hay, then that’s also fine.

Now a reminder of the altruistic efforts of our amphibious B&B swimmers. We have two teams (that we know of) who are participating in this years Coastrek in March, which is a 50km coastal endurance walk to raise money for the sight restoring work of The Fred Hollows Foundation!

If you would like to sponsor either or both teams please do so below:

Jenny Knapman’s team: http://my.artezpacific.com/TeamPage.aspx?teamID=48198&langPref=en%20CA&Referrer=direct%2fnone

Elaine Kindred’s team: http://my.artezpacific.com/TeamPage.aspx?teamID=48228&langPref=en%20CA&Referrer=direct%2fnone

It’s been said before that Bold & Beautiful actually is a coffee group with a swimming addiction, and ain’t that so? Sorry about the salt stains on the camera lens, I think you get the gist from these two photos even though I didn’t take any pics of the numerous coffee aficionados at Manly Wine.

Thanks for letting me play B&B blogger for the weekend. See you in the ocean 🙂

Anna