55 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
What’s not to love about winter swimming !! With clear skies, calm seas and crystal clear water, it’s like flying over a desert. The water visibility is just fantastic !
James took these lovely dawn photos of Lake Manly this morning.
Michelle is sooo excited… Sophie has a 6 month growing baby (not 6 babies ;-)) all nicely tucked up in there…
A fish eye’s view at the point.
5 swimmers were up and at it early enjoying a pre-dawn lap and 4 swimmers continued on afterwards for a double lap. Michael is doing daily double laps with no wetsuit, so for anyone who was wondering if it’s too cold to enjoy these beautiful winter swims, the answer is clearly “no” so come on down and enjoy these beautiful conditions 🙂
We are currently up to 2999 swimmers. That’s 2999 individuals that have ever swum with us since we began on 27th December 2008. Who will be our 3000th swimmer ?? Will it be tomorrow ?? Now that’s a thing worth celebrating !!
Today sees us start the 5th week of winter swimming, don’t worry even after this week there’s still 9 more weeks to go… and already 415 people have swum at least once, hence are all on target to get their winter badge as there are still 67 days to go and you only need to swim a minimum of 20 times over a minimum of 7 different weeks…. so the good news is… even if you haven’t done one winter swim yet, it’s still not too late to start !! 🙂
To check out who is swimming in winter and how many swims you have done please click here Please try remember to tick or we won’t know you’ve swum, thank you.
Check out Sprout Daily today, Murray has some beautiful photos from yesterday plus one of us from this morning too 🙂
Congratulations to Todd and his partner on the birth of their beautiful baby boy, Hudson !! How’s Toohey taking to the new addition Todd ??
Happy birthday to Jenny Hole today 🙂
To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
Water Temperature 15.5
Air Temperature 7.0
Sunrise 7.01am
Sunset 4.55pm
Low Tide: 6.07am
High Tide: 12.20pm
5 comments
lesley
25/06/2012 at 11:49 am
wow it looks spectacular out there today!! Where was I?! In bed! :-/
I really LOVE all the photos from yesterday – my favourite is Margo throwing Bruce’s ashes across the water… very moving.
I’m pleased to report that some of Bruce’s ashes went into my eyes, so he had one last swim across to Shelly with me 🙂
Lucy
25/06/2012 at 1:07 pm
Beautiful Sophie and her beautiful baby bump!! Which 10 people had to help do up the wetsuit this morning?? Hehe xx
Gaetan
25/06/2012 at 1:15 pm
cool pics and yes it felt even colder this morning than yesterday morning. We even had to swim around a small iceberg at Queenscliff!
alyson
25/06/2012 at 3:26 pm
very moving blog from yesterday. A memorial I am sure Bruce would have enjoyed and sung along to. Photo’s from today are amazing! But 15.5? eek!!
Michael [EX CI]
25/06/2012 at 6:12 pm
Hi Lesley. I’m sure you will notice Bruce recorded his last swim in the winter challenge on 24th June.
[BTW Get yourself out of bed in the morning you lazy slob!!]