Over 121 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
Superb swim this morning with lots of beautiful fishes in the warm, clear blue sea 😉
From Gaetan’s photo below it sure looks like Evan, Gaetan, James and Miles had a gorgeous early swim too.
Miles also continued on for the regular swim and took some great shots from his whole adventure to share with us.
Dave, James, John, Michael and myself continued on for a bonus second lap exploring the scenic route and Dave saw a black tipped reef shark 🙂
Now surely these stunning photos from everyone today have inspired you to participate in the 6 or 10km swim tomorrow !! There are lots of people giving it ago including some of our outstanding veterans so please come and join in, the conditions are absolutely ideal and it’s the last one for 2012 🙂
The originals have put in a special request for the 10km route to match the 6km swim all the way back to Manly, to have the teddy bears picnic on Manly beach then jump back in for another lap up to Freshie and back as they really want to qualify for their 10km badge and feel they can achieve it this way, so that’s the plan, the more the merrier. See you all tomorrow morning !
Check out Bob Petterson’s fantastic B&B on tour photos from when he braved the Polar Plunge at midnight on 30th January at 77′ 34’S 166′ 08E in the shadow of Mt Erebus from M.V. Orion. Brilliant Bob !! It’s fantastic to see you giving Ragnill and Hilde a run for the recorder holder of ‘The Coolest B&B Swim’ 🙂
Water Temperature 24.2
Air Temperature 20.5
Sunrise 6.38am
Sunset 7.39pm
High Tide: 10.43am
Low Tide: 4.56pm
Peter I’m afraid I’ll have to had over to you to disclose who you were excoriating at brekkie this morning…
13 comments
Lesley
February 24, 2012 at 11:26 am
re: 5th photo – far right side – oooh not sure I would want a shot of me from that angle!!!! Do we have to guess who’s under carriage that is Jules??! hee hee
On swim back from Shelly I actually got scared – there were not only LOTS of big sharks BUT they were really near the surface and 2 swam right by me!!! GULP!! but I can absolutely say they were not interested in me – i smell too much like human 😉
Re: Bob’s plunge – Bob how cold was the water? was was temperature???
fifi
February 24, 2012 at 11:40 am
wow, what an experience. I wish I had seen that!
(But in company of course.)
I only saw two doodling around at the bottom.
Lucy McFadden
February 24, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Jules…is anyone doing the 10km via Curl Curl? xx
Pacific Jules
February 24, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Ok, it’s gone along with the other colourful photo… 😉
Lesley
February 24, 2012 at 1:43 pm
awww I liked that special shot Jules!! (thankfully was not of me!)
It needs to go back up to get comments from Miles! hee hee
Lesley
February 24, 2012 at 1:43 pm
yeah Fifi – i was kicking a lot more than usual…
Lindsay
February 24, 2012 at 2:04 pm
That’s a fantastic sunrise photo. Well done!
Cathie
February 24, 2012 at 2:05 pm
I’d be kicking a lot too if I saw lots of big sharkies at goggle level…
Cathie
February 24, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Lesley quite clearly the water is totally and absolutely frozen – can’t you see he is walking on it??
Pacific Jules
February 24, 2012 at 4:55 pm
You keen to go that route then ? We can work it out in the morning if we have two groups wanting to go different routes.
Annette
February 24, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Beautiful photos, really shows the great conditions – sunny, flat, clear and loads of sealife!
John
February 24, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Good luck Brendan in the Rottnest Channel Swim – you will inspire me during my very much shorter Challenge swim tomorrow.
heidi
February 24, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Good luck tomorrow Brendan, enjoy and remember ‘just keep swimming’!