37 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
4 swimmers braved the Bolderdash, 3 of whom (Cae, Gaetan and James) went to the Harbour for an early forshore swim around to Little Manly and back where the clarity was even better than yesterday. On their return trip they saw a massive ‘desert camo’ style wobby in full flight cruising along the rockface.
As it was just off the whiteish rocks they got a great appreciation of its colour and swimming technique. James says: “no wonder they call them gummy sharks!” It was apparenlty nearly three meters long !!
Meanwhile, Miles Tollan swam an heroic solo to Queenscliff and back as blue bottle detector for us and came back sting free 🙂 Christine Armour and Michael Keelan also spent an hour on their boards with only one blue sighting so the 7am swimmers hit the ocean. Or maybe it
would be more appropriate to say the Ocean hit them as it was washing machine gnarly out there this morning.
Once you got past the point it had that gentle roll feeling all the way to Shelly and back.
The waves and the wash from the beach to the point were on form though providing much entertainment from the point as the swimmers headed back in.
Meanwhile Billy Boy decided a quick dip at Shelly was in order and he wasn’t complaining at his post swim shower either, in fact he rewarded Peter with a lift back to Manly… 😉
Sue McGregor doesn’t usually get to swim on Monday’s but thanks to Christmas holidays she swam today. It was a very happy addition to our Monday too as Sue brought a beautiful homemade lemon sponge to brekkie to celebrate 🙂 Please swim more often on Monday’s Sue !
Tim’s fact of the day: “Pacific Ocean is larger than all of the Earth’s land area combined.”
Just a reminder that Manly Wine are no longer offerening their buffet breakfast as part of any menu. Our special B&B breakfast still applies, just minus the buffet.
Water Temperature 21.2
Air Temperature 18.0
Sunrise 5.40am
Sunset 8.04pm
Low Tide: 9.52am
High Tide: 3.53pm
13 comments
Jane
December 19, 2011 at 11:03 am
Great news – Mark McGrouther has added 2 more of Gaetan’s photos to the OzMus website. Check them out at:
http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/image/Dusky-Flathead-at-Manly
http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/image/Dusky-Flathead-swimming/
Congratulations Gaetan.
Pacific Jules
December 19, 2011 at 11:11 am
That’s fantastic. They are amazing shots. Congratulations Gaetan !!
Jane
December 19, 2011 at 11:38 am
By the way, Jules, your lovely big jelly seems to be the white-spotted jelly (Phyllorhiza punctata). It looks a bit damaged. Apparently they can grow to over half a meter in diameter and the sting is quite mild.
Brendan Maher
December 19, 2011 at 12:28 pm
the giant wobbe sounds impressive, sorry I missed it.
Is anyone interested in an unofficial Bolderdash tomorrow at 5.50am? Cae is having a day off, but I’m sure we can russle up a few.
Gaetan
December 19, 2011 at 12:48 pm
ok I’ll be there, winds look favorable for tomorrow morning!
Swim in the harbour was nice, we swam all the way very close to the shore as there were no fishermen on the rocks and saw heaps of fish, very interesting. By the time i took my camera out the wobbe disappeared in the kelp, but I’m sure we’ll see it again, it was huge!
Miles
December 19, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Excuse me Jules, I thought there’d be a bit more made of my heroics and general bravery. I mean there was quite a lot of seaweed out there and some of it was really scratchy. And the waves.
Gaetan
December 19, 2011 at 2:25 pm
soft 🙂
5:50 tomorrow Miles!
Anna Alvsdotter
December 19, 2011 at 4:20 pm
😀
Pacific Jules
December 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm
You’re quite right Miles. You certainly were the hero of the day, going solo, taking it all on for the team in the dark abyss of the wild ocean with all it has to offer. While the rest of us had either stayed in bed, crept over to the harbour for a scenic swim, or retired home for a cup of tea awaiting the safety in numbers swim at 7.
It sure was dangerous seaweed too… look what it did to that monster jelly this morning.
Joel Monaghan
December 19, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Hey Peter be careful I got in serious trouble simulating the same thing last year 🙂
Iain
December 19, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Joel, is it true that you are not even a player anymore after that incident?
Michael [EX CI]
December 19, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Miles I was impressed, I have to admit!!
There was NO WAY I was going in I can assure you. you have my vote for “Stalwart of the Year” without question. No one comes near you.
There now does that feel better?
Joel Monaghan
December 19, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Yes I work for the RSPCA now 🙂