70 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
A little cloud and chop this morning so sadly no stunning sunrise, but a lovely swim with virtually no Jimbles 🙂
The water is still beautifully clear and warm, gotta love winter swimming !
Iain McGregor, Nick The Brick and Stephen Coulter did an extra lap in the dark the morning
starting at 6.20am which was very impressive.
Lovely photos this morning, the first one is courtesy of Gaetan Guilhon, the rest are courtesy of James Goins, thanks guys.
Looking forward to seeing you at Manly Wine for our sponsored nibbles tonight 🙂
The last photo is of Stephen Coulter and myself in our “The Swim” caps, we have entered the challenge to go into the
draw to be selected as one of the swimmers to join Richard Branson and Ronan Keating in their teams of 10 to complete the 56mile swim across the Irish Sea in a couple of months time.
Stephen has just reminded me that the catch is we have to raise 100 pounds towards Cancer Research UK by the end of tomorrow to even qualify for the draw, so if you fancy sponsoring either of us your donations would be most appreciated, although it is quite an arduous process with an Australian credit
card but very simple with Paypal.
You can sponsor me by clicking here, or Stephen by clicking here.
I have sent Richard Branson an invite to do at least one of his training swims in the pink with Bold & Beautiful whilst he is in Sydney on one of his many visits, lets hope he accepts ! Linda Goodwin kindly designed the invitation for me so hopefully it will catch his attention and he won be able to resist us 🙂
If you’re interested in viewing the video I put together from the dive yesterday you can check it out here
Also check out Gaetan Guilhon’s stunning underwater video from snorkeling last weekend by clicking here Once you go to Gaetan’s vimeo account you will be able to view some of his other videos, they are sensational.
Water Temperature 19.0 degrees.
Air Temperature 12.5 degrees.
Sunrise 7.01am.
Sunset 4.56pm.
High Tide: 6.39am.
Low Tide: 12.15pm
15 comments
Tacomajim
June 29, 2011 at 10:09 am
Jules – update on jellyfish question. Don’t know if anyone’s ID’d the mysterious second jelly (not the jimble) but I am now told that it is a ctenophore, known as a ‘comb jelly’. If we want Richard Branson to come join BNB for a swim, we’d better stop running the jellyfish photos!
Pacific Jules
June 29, 2011 at 10:18 am
Hi James, yes Jane Stevenson got her friends at the Australian Museum to confirm the id, it is an Eastern Comb Jelly, Bolinopsis sp.
Stephen Coulter
June 29, 2011 at 10:20 am
I’m sure Richard wont baulk at a Jelly Fish – he’s taken on far bigger challenges. They’re one of the hazards on the Irish Sea swim so he needs some practice! I’m sure there are lots of B&B ladies willing to attend to any stings (if they can get past Julie!)
Stephen Coulter
June 29, 2011 at 10:33 am
Jules,
Rob Robinson also did the double crossing and Gaetan did a single crossing at 6:20 – does that qualify for a tick?
Pacific Jules
June 29, 2011 at 10:43 am
Good job Rob and Gaetan 🙂
Winter badge ticks are 7am swims only, tough at the top you know 😉
Rob
June 29, 2011 at 10:49 am
go on, give me 2 ticks! I’ve some catching up to do …
Jalna
June 29, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Went for a walk around the Bay this morning and saw two guys in a boat catching fish. Rang the rangers and fisheries but Dave from Eco Dive was already there taking photos and had contacted fisheries. Watched as the fisheries boat snuck around the Bower just as they were landing a fish and all captured on camera by Dave. Excellent!
Dave says only turtles eat Jimbles….gotta get ourselves some more turtles.
Nick
June 29, 2011 at 2:43 pm
The Korean eat’m pickled!! mmmmmm……
Stephen Coulter
June 29, 2011 at 2:56 pm
What eats jellyfish?
What do jellyfish eat?
There are many kinds, or species, of jellyfish in all the oceans of the earth. The main predator of jellyfish is other jellyfish, usually of a different species.
But jellyfish also have a number of other natural enemies that like to eat them. These predators include tunas, sharks, swordfish and some species of salmon.
Sea turtles also like to eat jellyfish. In fact, each year many sea turtles become ill and even die from eating floating plastic bags and other plastic trash that they mistake for jellies. That is one of the reasons why it is important to keep trash out of the world’s oceans.
So, what do jellyfish eat? Most jellyfish prey on tiny sea creatures called plankton—but some types attack and ingest smaller jellyfish!
Gaétan
June 29, 2011 at 3:37 pm
whatever …. ;-)))))))))
Gaétan
June 29, 2011 at 3:38 pm
great news!
Jalna
June 29, 2011 at 4:03 pm
So we need larger sharks,bigger jellyfish to eat the little jellyfish and a bunch of culinary Koreans and that will fix it !?!?
Iain
June 29, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Not to worry people,
Once again the more ‘inclusive’ breakaway organisation I am starting, “the bolder and beautifuller” will recognize your swims outside 7am towards our winter badge.
Like the B&B, the B’er&B’er badge will cost a small fee BUT come with a free beer!!!
disclaimer: B’er&B’er badge may or may not look distinctly like a beer coaster.
Iain
June 29, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Fantastic,
Lets all get a little tipsy at tonight’s drinks and go borrow some turtles from Taronga Zoo for a week.
If we get caught we can rightly claim that we are just taking them on a winter culinary tour.
ps. I have dibs on calling my turtle Michelangelo and he will have some serious nun-chuck skills.
Iain
June 29, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Fellow B’er&B’er’s,
For those of you who are interested we will be meeting tomorrow at 6:20am tomorrow morning for a pre-swim and to test our turtles out.