Winter festival of Solstice is a time of festivals and spending time with loved ones, dancing, singing and fires. Its astronomically the beginning of the lengthening of days and shortening of nights.
What better way to celebrate than with a “Bold” swim with your swimming friends.
Jacqui was enjoying the wonderful energy of the festival by dancing on the sand.
It was a pretty big surf today, so the bulk of the crew walked around to 1/2 way beach.
Although, I did see a bare bum making “his” way out through the surf at 6.20am.
It was dark and cold. About 100 adventurous B & B’ers arrived early at 6.20am to do our first Solstice swim for 2017. Air temp was 12 degrees and water temp was about 19.8 degrees. (But there was so much excitement that none of us even noticed the cold.)
Generally, there are no rules but, we usually get into the water in our cosies. Then, once submerged we shed them and hang them around our neck while we swim to Shelly Beach & Back. Most people keep their “bits” under the water….and then put their cosies back on before exiting the water.
(I noticed lots more people getting a bit braver this year & leaving their cosies behind on dry ground)
Its so much fun.
This is the crew getting out after the swim with their cosies back on.
The pack busy putting their cosies back on in the water. Easier said than done!
Karen, enjoying the post swim high.
It definitely got the “thumbs up” from the boys.
Smiles all around, Ian, Karen & Ted.
David at the end of his first “Bold” swim with Annalisa covering up after a morning of lots of skin showing.
Ah the hot water to finish…beautiful. Annalisa, Jenny (blogger) & Suzy.
Have a great Solstice everyone, Jenny
*Special thanks to Edwina and Jacqui for the water pics.
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Badge info:
The winter swimming season runs from 1 June to 31 August, and to qualify for your winter badge, you must:
swim at least 20 times during this period
swim in at least 7 different weeks
log your swims
To qualify for the WWW badge (winter without wetsuit) you must complete all of the above without wearing a wetsuit or any other form of bodily thermal enhancement (don’t forget to check the “without wetsuit” button on the log in screen). Why not give it a try?
20 comments
Shelly
June 20, 2017 at 2:24 pm
Ha ha love the first shot !!! Jenny.
pretty much sums up the skinny solstice for me.
Love you all
Shelly
xoxoxo
Lesbubs
June 20, 2017 at 2:27 pm
what’s the etiquette, on the nudey swim, when arriving head down in the water at Shelly / coming face to face with men’s bits?
I pondered this on my 7am non-nude swim as I arrived face-first with men standing waist deep… I was glad they all had their budgies on 😳
Jenny@inspireupt.com.au
June 20, 2017 at 2:37 pm
Me too, such fun. ❤️
Jenny@inspireupt.com.au
June 20, 2017 at 2:38 pm
Lucky it was still dark…
Lisa B
June 20, 2017 at 2:55 pm
Jenny what a fabulous blog. I love the first photo. Go Jac!! It captures the sense of unbridled joy we all felt. Great swim
JK
June 20, 2017 at 3:14 pm
ATTENTION everybody. The lifesavers have just told me that surf is going to be up in our corner plus onto Shelly tomorrow so you may need to consider your swim. Thanks…..JK
Shelley K
June 20, 2017 at 3:18 pm
A lovely nudie swim, even if somewhat truncated by thundering surf. I pity the poor passers-by at the Bower, they were agog. And Lesbubs I think the only response a lady can make faced with such a situation is to discreetly look away and smile coyly
Jenny@inspireupt.com.au
June 20, 2017 at 3:22 pm
Yes those poor people innocently walking their dogs at the bower got an eye ful.
Matt
June 20, 2017 at 3:25 pm
The look on jogger’s face in the third photo is priceless!!
Robyn
June 20, 2017 at 3:50 pm
Great blog Jenny. Love the first photo. Says it all! Many thanks.
Edwina Harrison
June 20, 2017 at 4:25 pm
😜👍
Edwina Harrison
June 20, 2017 at 4:27 pm
Great blog following a great swim jenny, glad I’m on nights if it’s going to be that rough tomorrow 👍
Robyn
June 20, 2017 at 4:32 pm
Thanks John.
Lesbubs
June 20, 2017 at 5:45 pm
So not point and laugh?
Paul
June 20, 2017 at 6:29 pm
Sighted a Grey Nurse out there today. Presumably the same one that visited last week.
Lainey Loo
June 20, 2017 at 7:20 pm
So many skinny swimmers, amazing! I’ve never seen so many turtles or moray eels either. Great blog Jenny!
Jenny :)
June 21, 2017 at 8:30 am
It was the talk of lane 1 at Nth Syd Pool Squad today Lainey Loo, Im sure that the numbers are building as word gets around. Nothing like a frolic in the sea.
Jenny :)
June 21, 2017 at 8:32 am
Jac’s pic was a winner! she is a legend.
lesbubs
June 21, 2017 at 12:28 pm
glad we ignored you JK and turned up anyway ;P
lesbubs
June 21, 2017 at 12:31 pm
is ‘turtle’ and ‘moray eel’ another name for people’s bits?