Over 109 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers
Not sure if anyone did any earlies or doubles!
Foggen hell what a swim! Yes foggy when we arrived but cleared up once swim got on its way. The life guards put up the strong current sign which we all ignored….just kidding, no of course we didn’t…because a lot of people went around to half way and the rest of us who feel more confident in surf etc. went in from the beach. The rip pulled us out fairly quickly and just as a lot of us got near to the point a freaking huge wave said HELLO!! There were some very loud screams – mainly from me – but everyone was safe – because we have all read Michael’s safety in the surf tips! http://www.boldandbeautifulmanly.com.au/safety-in-the-surf.html
And with a big let’s go from John K off we went!
The swim over was fairly smooth, just before Shelly though it got a bit bumpy!
Check out the view that greets the ‘slower’ swimmers! (incl myself!)
Swimmer John O’Neill was seen having a sleep on the boat ramp – swimming from half way seemed to have taken it out of him – although he assures me he was doing sit ups?! Will try and get photographic evidence tomorrow…
A lot of us went back in at half way and the rest braved it back through the surf!
As always it’s lovely to be here!
The rest out there in the surf!! Bruce B in first as usual!
Welcome back to Nick- who is normally one of our regular swimmers but has not been swimming for 8 weeks due to a broken pinky toe… or was it rib?? – he said if he makes it ok today he will be entering an Iron Man comp… not sure he made it back though? Did anyone see him? 😉
Below – Back at base camp – A welcome shower for the lovely Paige! Ian convincing new comer Tiny Nick to come back…no, no Nick absolutely loved it, and he and friends joined us for breakfast at Manly Wine..they definitely had that ‘we made’ it smile on their faces! Please come back! 🙂
Another elbow shot – any guesses who’s?
Below the view that keeps us going in Winter – Manly Wine counter! Bruce joined us… keeping up on the news. And the Chapman family looking very healthy and happy after their swim!
Thanks to everyone who helped us out today – great team effort!!
11 comments
LittleFish
21/04/2012 at 11:05 am
There was an early swim from Shelly to Freshie and back. Gaetan and I stopped after returning but James, Cae, Brendan, Alex and Anna kicked on to do it a second time.
Gaetan just texted me to say Freshie swim again tomorrow, meet at club at 6 🙂
Cae Tolman
21/04/2012 at 12:53 pm
And very nice it was too!
Despite the bump at Shelley, a truly gorgeous swim.
Thanks to all of today’s distance daemons (which for the record also included Iain) for a great morning
Tacomajim
21/04/2012 at 1:11 pm
FOUND: in front to surf club, pair of black goggles and a BNB cap. We found them at about 10 when we returned from our second lap. Are they yours? I will be down for the 7AM swim tomorrow and will bring them.
Thanks to the early crew for a great double lap of our bay this morning. We are so fortunate to have this stretch of water to do our training. There were very few clean water options in Sydney today with all the rain and lagoons emptying. Surprising how clean the water was today, really.
Jalna
21/04/2012 at 1:27 pm
Lesley thanks for including what is also my view of the approach to Shelly.
Good you captured it with the camera.
Like the elusive blind shark, if there wasn’t an image a lot of swimmers
would never get to see it 😉
Little Tiger
21/04/2012 at 2:05 pm
Lovely to be in the water, halfway option great for me. Good teamwork this morning. Michael’s tips on surf safety coming in very handy.
Gaetan
21/04/2012 at 2:13 pm
great blog and great pics again Lesley! it was quite interesting and beautiful with the fog this morning, i think we only managed to see Queenscliff once we arrived at the bottom of it!
heidi
21/04/2012 at 3:32 pm
Does the elbow belong to John Bond? Nice blog LC.
Paige
21/04/2012 at 3:35 pm
Lesley – Great blog and of course a GIANT ‘Thanks’ for editing that photo! See you all tomorrow…
Anna Alvsdotter
21/04/2012 at 6:49 pm
OK Lesley, it’s official; you are very funny! I’ve just read through the blog very late in the day, and noticed as I was getting to the end that I had a big grin on my dial.
The elbow is one of our many attractive elbows, but I can’t work out whose it is. My question though is why the need to pixelate the pink budgie smugler person beyond? It’s not as if we haven’t seen pink speedos before, you know.
Lesley
21/04/2012 at 7:24 pm
Thanks Anna – I am sure I will start to get annoying very soon! The elbow is John Bond! And yes i needed to pixelate/fog over a lot of the budgies due to their see throughness! Ha ha no it was blobs of water on the camera lens! perfect positioning tho huh!
iain
21/04/2012 at 8:54 pm
Hey Everyone,
Manly Food Co-op is celebrating 15 years tomorrow from 12 till 4pm. All welcome at the scout hall near the tennis courts with lots of yum food on offer.
Iain