121 Bold & Beautiful swimmers
were rewarded with another postcard perfect swim this morning.
We are so spoilt and spring has only just sprung. Summer is gonna be AWESOME 🙂
We have fun no matter what, but it sure is nicer when the weather’s on our side.
Some great shots taken at the point this morning, even if I do say so myself 😉
A nice natter and a group hug at Shelly
Revitalising everyone for the swim back
Our breath was certainly taken away for the few of us that saw the largest Kingfish ever, it was the size of me, seriously it was HUGE !!! Magnificent, but such a surprise, although it was even more surprised than we were. It wasn’t stopping for a photo, unlike our tranquil Port Jacksons who don’t get perturbed when 100+ pink caps admire them from above.
There were about 10 swimmers out there early enjoying the dawn lap this morning and ~8 doubled up with an extra lap after the regular swim.
Hope to see many of you down at Shelly Beach at 11am today to
support James Pittar in the last 2km of his 20km swim down from
Collaroy. The plan is that hopefully James will arrive at
Shelly around 11.30am and we join him for the final 2km of his swim in
our pink caps up to North
Steyne for a BBQ finish. James is blind himself and is completing this
swim to raise money for the Fred Hollows Association to
support other blind people.
200 Tickets will go on sale tomorrow, $25 each, for our B&B Fundraising Trivia Night from 6.30pm on Tues 23rd Oct generously hosted & sponsored by The Steyne Hotel.
Trivia teams will be in tables of 10. Our very
own John Kelly has kindly agreed to be our trivia master again for the
night and some fantastic prizes have started flowing in already, so get
your teams together, think of a theme and get ready to buy your tickets
this weekend. It will be a great, fun night together 🙂
Other B&B social occasions coming up:
- Next monthly B&B special $20 Bluewater dinner is tomorrow night,
24th September at 6.30pm. Bookings are essential so please book in here asap
- October’s monthly happy hour drinks and nibbles at Murray’s is on Wed 10th Oct, so please rsvp here and come and join in the fun
Stephen has been launching our new global swimming website, iSwimtoo in America at the Open Water Swimming Conference this weekend !! Check it out yourselves and let us know what you think… Enter swims that you’ve done anywhere around the world, find new places to swim and people to swim with.
Join the world’s newest and largest global swimming community here today !
Whilst there Stephen has been very busy recruiting swimmers to our very own B&B Wall of Fame, check them out here:
Greta Andersen, an amazing swimmer, 1948 Olympic Gold Medallist, many channel swims and still swimming, now in pink, aged 85
Diana Nyad a very well regarded long distance, like mega distance swimmer
Martin Strel, aka ‘The Big River Man’ and his son, Borut Strel
and Craig Dietz, a truly inspiration man ! Craig was born with no limbs, but there is no limits to what he can achieve, amongst many things Craig is a triathlon swimmer
Water Temperature 16.8
Air Temperature 11.0
Sunrise 5.43am
Sunset 5.52pm
Low Tide: 7.32am
High Tide: 2.11pm
To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
9 comments
Tim
23/09/2012 at 10:57 am
Come on Stephen Coulter, your not really in the USA are you. This is where he really is folks.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4551873/Naked-skinny-dip-record-attempt-flops-in-cold-water-swim.html
lesley
23/09/2012 at 2:00 pm
Heehee I think you’re right Tim!
That port jackson was huge..we nearly head butted!…glad I didn’t see the king fish.. they scary! Great swim with James Pittar..can’t believe he was drinkin a vb at the end and not even shivering!!.. 🙂 and nice food for us all…
Elaine
23/09/2012 at 3:14 pm
Yes Stephen probably is going for his ‘Willies Without Wetsuit’ badge. Well done Lesley for making the swim with James. we wanted to but had to work 🙁 Glad to hear he’s not afraid to drink VB! See you tomorrow…
John
23/09/2012 at 4:27 pm
Great conditions again for the swim this morning,doesn’t get much better.
Appreciated the chance to swim with James Pittar and all the supporters in the last part of his fund raising swim.
John Martens-Shaw
23/09/2012 at 6:11 pm
Perfect swimming conditions in the morning.Enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for having me guys.
Anna Alvsdotter
23/09/2012 at 8:21 pm
Loved this morning’s swim and also the privilege to join James Pittar for his last few kilometres. What a legend. He’s inspired me to try to ignore my own limitations and instead focus on my possibilities.
Maybe it’s a coincidence, but I can now see there’s a real possibility I will overtake Stephen Coulter of I Swim Too fame on the Pacific Challenge. Only two more swims….
Pacific Jules
23/09/2012 at 9:12 pm
Go Anna 😉 🙂
Mrs Whale
23/09/2012 at 9:42 pm
J’aime ce website iswimtoo, merci beaucoup. Thanks for the introduction to the iswimtoo website, I can look for other people to swim with, although you people are my favourites.
fifi
23/09/2012 at 9:49 pm
wow, Mama whale has facebook! who knew?? and speaks french!
GO ANNNAAAA 🙂