57 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
The lifeguards closed the beach so we wondered round to half way beach for a rock ‘n roll swim to Shelly and back.
The mushy chop always makes for a fun swim. David Adams said he knew we were a grubby bunch but thought we could have at least turned the rinse cycle off before we jumped in 🙂
Now talking about Dave… unfortunately for us, we only have 6 weeks left to enjoy him and his beautiful wife and daughter, Lindsay and Sydney… so please come down and have a swim or 30 with him before he leaves us to go back to the USA 🙁
Back to today’s swim; as you can see from the third photo below, Scott was very proud of his achievements at the end of his first swim with us after having thought about it for a couple of years…
6 swimmers continued on to the point before returning to half way to rack up an extra couple of hundred metres.
5 swimmers also enjoyed or was it endured Bolderdash by swimming two early laps into Shelly and back !!
Great effort to everyone who swam the Palm to Whale yesterday, it seems like you all had a swell ole time…
An update below from James on his ‘Bloody Big Swim’ in Victoria on Saturday.
“Time was 3:26. Beaut Day. Water was 19 and air was 34. Only about 60 soloists. It really was a mini Rotto in so many ways: At 11.2 kms, it is still an epic but not as long, but just quietly is much safer and more scenic. A swim tour down the Mornington Peninsula past clifftops and bluffs containing mansions and summer homes of the known and unknown Victorian affluent. If you guys are keen, now is the time as I am sure it is going to grow. Especially now that Rowan has cleaned up down there. We’ve given it a bit of exposure this year for sure. I will have a full album up on my facebook page a bit later so you can see what I mean about how scenic it is.”
The Cole Classic is on at Manly this Sunday so there will be boats throughout the bay setting up cans ready for the event so we will swim in the harbour.
Water Temperature 24.0
Air Temperature 20.5
Sunrise 6.14am
Sunset 8.02pm
Low Tide: 7.52am
High Tide: 1.44pm
11 comments
fifi
January 30, 2012 at 10:08 am
Jules, will there be a distance swim on saturday morning?
Pacific Jules
January 30, 2012 at 10:11 am
Yes, we will do a 6km swim on Saturday continuing on from the regular swim 🙂
Michael [EX CI]
January 30, 2012 at 10:44 am
Oy!! Isn’t the Cole on SUNDAY?? I thought the six k would be as usual unless we’re in the harbour for other reasons??
Pacific Jules
January 30, 2012 at 11:06 am
Whoops, thanks Michael, you’re quite right. The Cole is on Sunday. So… we’ll be as normal on Saturday with the regular and the 6km swims both in the ocean.
Sunday we’ll be in the harbour for the regular swim only.
(I’ve amended my comment above now too, so hopefully that removes any confusion).
Brendan Maher
January 30, 2012 at 12:39 pm
I’d like to congratulate Ian Forster for getting to his namesake town on the Pacific Challenge
Slow Ian
January 30, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Thanks Brendan. I did it the hard way as well – just about all in 1.5 km chunks. None of this Bolderdash rubbish. I did blot my copybook on Saturday though, with a 6 km sprint to the finish.
Jenny Holmes
January 30, 2012 at 4:03 pm
I ventured out despite wind and weather to squeeze in my first and probably last (for now) dawn Bolderdash. When I arrived a bit before 5.50 a.m. there were no B&B pink caps to be seen, the sea was like a cauldron and singularly uninviting, so I went for a long walk which was lovely, but not quite the same… Would it ever be possible to do a 7 a.m. Bolderdash? Things looked a stack better when I headed off half an hour later as I couldn’t wait. Work is such a nuisance!
fifi
January 30, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Goody. Hope I dont sleep in.
Cathie
January 30, 2012 at 5:07 pm
From one Forster to another – way to go!
Cae Tolman
January 30, 2012 at 8:22 pm
We were there… Sat on the benches until 6, lamenting the horrorshow conditions. We did 2 Shelly trips in the end…
Jenny Holmes
January 31, 2012 at 12:06 pm
When I arrived no one was there except a couple of non- B&Bers and I thought perhaps I was the only joe muggins who’d thought to come, so I took off… partly because at the time I never thought of the Shelly option… sorry I didn’t stick around. Good on you lot!