Mornin’ all. Inner Westies here. Surf was up today. Choppy waves and a big rip. Lots of us walked to the steps. Before I launch into today, announcements first.
AUSTRALIA DAY SWIM NOTICE
Could all experienced BnBers swimming on Tuesday please swim wide to help reign in any outliers expected in the big crowd… JK can’t do it all on his own ! And don’t forget to bring coins …. (keep reading)
C’mon Aussie c’mon, c’mon! C’mon Aussie, c’mon!
This Australia Day lets support our Friends at Royal Far West. We swim on their doorstep every morning and have been supporters of them for years. Royal Far West also help stock and distribute all Bold and Beautiful’s merchandise.
But helping country kids is what they do best – giving access to health services desperately needed by Aussie kids who live in rural and remote areas. So please bring along some extra money on Tuesday morning and give generously to their volunteers – you will help our country kids be the best they can be!
Back to this mornin’
Ian’s stats
- 190 swimmers
- 20 newbies
- hot water – 23.7 degrees!
Reckon that’s enough photos to see why lots of us walked to the steps.
Newbies Sarah and Mieke – welcome!
Justus, g’day.
11 year old Caoimhe and mum Paula – great to have you with us.
Tom and family – welcome!
Great cosy from Christina
Oodles of post swim discussion – did you swim? did you walk? how was the rip?
About an hour later, the surf was really high – check out the surfers at the point
Sign says it all
See you all next week !
Emma, Fi1, Fi2 and Mickey
B&B Swim School
Join Pacific Jules coach Sarah Anne for an hour in the ocean as they teach you the fundamentals of the underwater phase of your freestyle stroke.
This one hour session in the water will help understand the technique in easy to follow steps, bringing it all together to allow you to feel additional propulsion, power and speed.
When : Saturday 6 Feb 8-9am
Cost : $25
Location : Shelly Beach
Open to everyone and all abilities welcome.
What to bring: swim suit, cap, goggles, wetsuit compulsory, water and money for a hot cuppa afterwards!
Please email info@pacificjules.com.au for more information or to reserve your place.
4 comments
Elizabeth Stewart
24/01/2016 at 12:33 pm
Fabulous blog. There must have been 30 surfers at the bower. Thanks to Mark who pointed out a school of big fish leaping in and out of the water near half way. Don’t know what fish they were or why but it is something I have not seen before. And just good to see fish above the water because I could not see anything below!
DWSS
24/01/2016 at 1:51 pm
Great blog Inner Westies! Even better than Ian McKnights!
Thank you for taking the time.
Don’t forget we are starting from Shelly tomorrow.
JK
24/01/2016 at 3:38 pm
Nice one Westies, go to the top of the blog class
Greg Cole
24/01/2016 at 6:20 pm
A loosely related event at another event today: the brothers Drinkwater both recorded the identical time of 9 minutes and 53 seconds at the Mona Vale ocean swim. Due to conditions the event was shortened to I don’t know what distance. But hey, brothers doing identical times over any distance has to be worth a mention.