Important notice! TRIVIA NIGHT 2017
Most years we have a highly attended, memorable and much loved Trivia Night at The Steyne Hotel. This year’s is on 18th July at 6.30pm with a great meal, John Kelly’s wit and charm in comparing the trivia, lots of fun and merriment. The theme is ‘Nautical’ or rather ‘Naughty- cal’!!! (Think saucy pirate wenches, Johnny Depp take-offs, sexy sailors, mermaids and mermen. You could even come as a randy Cuttlefish!) It’s only $30 per person and you can book a table with friends or we can sort you out with lovely swimmers on a friendly table. There will be raffles, prizes, silent auction so if you please have anything you can contribute please let Roz Beaver, Janet Franks or myself know. We already have Sydney Sail days donated, nights at Whale Beach B&B, original artworks, signed sports jerseys, mounted marine life photos and would appreciate anything you can offer! We are raising money for Dr Ray’s charity Australians for Women’s Health which desperately needs a women’s hospital built in the poorest part of Nepal.
Roz has been working tirelessly to get the ticket booking system up and running so click on this link to book.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
Can you believe around 100 people turned up for The Andrew Drinkwater Skinny B&B Swim yesterday? A day early because Drinky was going off on holiday. What a turn out at 6.20am on a rainy old morning… Anyway back to today’s swim… A bit quieter today with cold air temperatures on the actual Winter Solstice but the sun came out and water temp a lot warmer than on this day previous years. Some of the happy crowd at Shelly above!
There was a bit of discussion as to wether to go through the waves today but most people decided to wait for ‘sets’ and swim out fast in between! Anne in foreground is happy about the still warm 19.5 degree water!
Gorgeous Sophie jumps for joy again!
The sun rises bang on 7am on the shortest day of the year.
I manage to get a shot of Guy being pummeled by a wave!
JK manages to brace himself and doesn’t get bowled over.
Lesbubbs doesn’t see my camera in time to pull a funny face. Look at those marvellous eyebrows!
At Shelly all the talk was about the huge, white shark Lyndall had seen. “it’s tail was this big!” She exclaims!
Look out for two Blog Tarts who manage to get on every photo! Tell us who they are in comments.
On the way back we are on the look out for Lyndall’s shark. There have been a few sightings of a Grey Nurse shark lately. I saw one 9 days ago on the only day I didn’t have a camera with me 🙁 Lesbubbs got a photo of the ‘white shark’ Lyndall described. First one is my Dusky and second photo Lesbubbs Grey Nurse
Good fun catching waves in to shore. Louise lost her goggles if anyone found…
This blog would not be complete without a section devoted to our beloved, mesmorising Giant Cuttlefish… They have been putting on quite a performance lately. Lots of swimmers saw them actually copulating on Sunday morning! Some of these swimmers, (like Louise Stacey mentioning no names), stayed around watching for around 15 minutes! Unfortunately I was back at the Surf Club (waiting for Jason to finish 1000 km) so missed out on the Cuttie Porn, but I have got the photo below from Kerry. Edwina, Gillian and Anne also posted great stuff on the Bold and Beautiful Swimmers Facebook page
I raced back to ‘Attracta Rock’ to see some action but they were just chasing each other so didn’t get to see the entwining of the tentacles. I have got some pretty good Cuttlefish shots recently though, including…
My lovely son, Charlie with Cuttie
Roz and Cuttie
Cuttie eating a Groper!!!
Most of you have probably seen my pic above but it hasn’t been on the blog before. Roz came across this Cuttlefish with a Blue Groper in it’s mouth and Sue and I joined her in looking at it too. It was an incredible sight. Why would a Cuttlefish choose a huge Groper to eat when there were all those Yellowtail swimming around? Anyway it was quite a sight which we were incredibly privileged to witness. Still a shame when you consider Cutties live to only 2 or 3 years and Groper can live until 80!
Skinny Swims from the archives…
B&B swim 2013. Guess the butts
Our Swedish swimmer’s pre-swim family gathering circa 1962
Last year’s raunchy WOW ladies!
TRIVIA NIGHT 2017
Most years we have a highly attended, memorable and much loved Trivia Night at The Steyne Hotel. This year’s is on 18th July at 6.30pm with a great meal, John Kelly’s wit and charm in comparing the trivia, lots of fun and merriment. The theme is ‘Nautical’ or rather ‘Naughty- cal’!!! (Think buxom pirate wenches, Johnny Depp take-offs, sexy sailors, mermaids and mermen. You could even come as a randy Cuttlefish!) It’s only $25 per person and you can book a table with friends or we can sort you out with lovely swimmers on a friendly table. There will be raffles, prizes, silent auction so if you please have anything you can contribute please let Roz Beaver, Janet Franks or myself know. We already have Sydney Sail days donated, nights at Whale Beach B&B, original artworks, signer sports jerseys and mounted photos!
Roz has been working tirelessly to get the ticket booking system up and running so click on this link to book.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
Get your B&B kit
New B&B merchandise available via the link: http://www.
Boldandbeautiful-promo
If you need silicon caps or discount cards as a swimmer, see Ian or John at the desk before your swim!
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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?
7 comments
Lisa B
June 21, 2017 at 1:16 pm
Brilliant Lainey! Love your blogs. Wasn’t the water beautiful today. I’m kind of glad I didn’t see the grey nurse.
Paul
June 21, 2017 at 2:01 pm
It was just the grey nurse and me out there for the triple yesterday, though it probably wasn’t the scariest thing I saw out there!
The cuttlefish pics are amazing, especially the gorging of the groper.
Edwina Harrison
June 21, 2017 at 2:54 pm
Rainer is one of the blog tarts. No idea about the bare bums . Glad the grey nurse is back 👍💕
Anne Henshaw
June 21, 2017 at 3:18 pm
Great blog, hopefully the grey nurse will hang around for a while
Bill McCaffeine
June 21, 2017 at 6:50 pm
I wanted to join in the Solstice tradition by looking at photographs of your naked bodies cavorting in CTB.
Pink Caps with Pink Bits, please
Jenny ((:
June 21, 2017 at 10:49 pm
Great blog Lainey, love the photo of the grey nurse. Lucky they are not aggressive nothing for us to worry about. 👍😉🐋
Marion
June 22, 2017 at 8:27 am
Hi swimming sat morning but in manly Friday night. Anyone around for a drink at the pub?