Over 92 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
Another perfect morning for a swim. Ok so every morning is perfect, but these totally peaceful conditions just make it simply unmatchable.
We are getting very close to breaking the 3000 mark with 2939 different individuals having currently ever swum with us (that we know of), and you know what… they all do it with a smile !! 🙂
Quite a few people were lucky enough to swim with a giant cuttlefish who was displaying his vibrant orange colours at the time. Unfortunately I wasn’t one of the lucky ones and it seems that Stephen wasn’t either as he took these fantastic shots, but there’s none of the GC.
10 swimmers also enjoyed an early lap into Shelly and Gaetan enjoyed some solitude for a solo swim up to Queensie. 5 swimmers also continued on afterwards for yet another lap 🙂
Check out this great action shot leaving Shelly… guess who ??
Not sure what Izzy did to her breakfast this morning… yep that’s scrambled eggs with marmalade, jam and vegemite all on the same piece of toast ! Don’t worry, thankfully that’s not on Bluewater’s menu.
Happy birthday to Eleanor Sheedy today !! 🙂
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUNCH OF FLOWERS THAT JUST GOT DELIVERED TO MY DOOR FROM ALL OF YOU !!!!! xxxxx
Sharon Dunn has shared some of her fantastic photos with us from a dive she enjoyed in the bay just after the swim on Saturday morning, check out the duskies, wobby’s, I think that’s even an octopus in the second one, plus plenty more… thanks for sharing them with us Sharon.
One of our swimmers Dave Kiely from Macquarie Bank in Manly is involved in an upcoming charity event from 6pm on Tuesday 5th June at the Manly Golf Club to raise funds for The Day of Difference Foundation.
There will be a guest speaker from Macquarie’s Strategy team to discuss their outlook on what’s happening in Europe and Australia, with drinks and canapes following the presentation.
Tickets are only $15 each. To book click here or call Hayden Bushell at Macquarie Manly on 9425 6000.
Day of Difference was formed in 2005 by Ron & Carolyn Martin Delezio after they experienced first hand what parents go through as a result of having their beautiful daughter, Sophie, critically injured. The foundation is committed to being the support mechanism for critically injured children and their families. Families of critically injured children are cared for by multiple professionals during hospitalisation. Currently there is no resource or other organisation offering dedicated in-hospital support to parents of critically injured children despite the alarmingly high numbers of child critical injury. Day of Difference is committed to filling this crucial role during one of the most traumatic events a family can face.
Water Temperature 19.4
Air Temperature 12.0
Sunrise 6.45am
Sunset 4.58pm
High Tide: 9.04am
Low Tide: 2.38pm
12 comments
Pacific Jules
22/05/2012 at 10:26 am
Thank you so very much for the most beautiful bunch of flowers that just go delivered to my door from all of you. You guys are so special.
I’ve just uploaded a photo of them above in the blog, thank you !!! xxxxx
John
22/05/2012 at 1:59 pm
Conditions were so good we did a third lap after coffee (thanks girls),saw plenty of fish and G cuttlefish at the point. Great photos Sharon of duskies. Is that some fishing line trailing from a shark’s mouth?
Gaetan
22/05/2012 at 2:53 pm
Amazing conditions indeed, I enjoyed my solo trip to QC. Planning another one at 6:15 tomorrow (and perhaps a double).
AMAZING photos Sharon, wow can’t believe you saw a nudibranch, been looking for one for a long time and never saw any!!! 🙂
Elaine de Jager
22/05/2012 at 3:00 pm
I’m glad you said the G cuttlefish was orange Jules. Aly and John need their eyes testing, purple or brown, indeed. Does it change colour though does anyone know?
Thanks for the swim tips Mr Bond. I’ll try without fins on Thursday…
Can Jane or anyone else identify some of the other fish in Sharon’s amazing photos for us? I can only identify trevally, yellowtail, groupers, duskies, old wifes, flathead, wobbegong. How lucky are we to swim with this every day?!!
Thanks once again Nicolee xx
Alyson
22/05/2012 at 3:35 pm
It was Orange the first time I saw it then it was purple at the end – I swear it changed colour in the light Elaine 😉 Was definitely the highlight! Amazing!! Thanks John for the tips. I just LOVE these swims!! 🙂
Sharon
22/05/2012 at 4:57 pm
Hey Gaetan, thank you :-)…I saw a couple, but that was the best shot!
Sharon
22/05/2012 at 4:59 pm
Hey John, yes unfortunately it is a fish hook, I spotted another one (that followed me virtually all of the dive!) with a sinker hanging from a long piece of line too. Not great!
Sharon
22/05/2012 at 5:02 pm
Elaine, thats an impressive listing! Jules spotted the octopus and I think its a frog fish in the 4th photos – ‘he’ was a bit spooked and was shuffling along the bottom.
Thanks for the compliment too!
Smezley
22/05/2012 at 5:48 pm
That shark in first pic looks really big from that angle! They are great photos Sharon! And yeh really impressed to see the nudibranch and octopus…wow!
Um…re..flowers Jules…you are welcome…though i knew nothing about it! 😀
Charlotte Svanen
22/05/2012 at 8:17 pm
Any danger swimming with these sharks? They do look indeed!
Pacific Jules
22/05/2012 at 8:34 pm
Hi Charlotte, they are our beautiful juvenile dusky whalers that we see all the time and that are harmless. Its the angle of the photo and taken from diving down deep with them that makes them look different 🙂
Sharon
23/05/2012 at 4:25 pm
Hi Charlotte,
They are actually quite shy – I’ve used a zoom on a couple of photos, hence why they look quite big. In fact, I realised diving with them they are in fact very small (less than 1m in most cases. Its actually good to see them in such healthy numbers!