Over 171 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
20 people enjoyed a beautiful Bolderdash this morning, kindly ‘led’ by Robin, thank you.
One of whom was Neil Cowin who has arrived at South West Rocks !!! The first swimmers to complete the first leg in our Pacific Challenge.
Congratulations Neil, you have swum nearly 400kms and only missed one morning’s swim in the last 6 months – seriously impressive !! No time to stop hey, off to the salty blue yonder… Thanks for the sensational postcard, courtesy of James Goins.
To see where you are on the Pacific Challenge click on the icon to the left any time or here now
The conditions are absolutely stunning right now, with beautiful warm, clear, calm seas full of pink 😉
It was great to be joined by 35 new swimmers, including one from Denmark and quite a few children including at least two 7 year olds on their first swim; Savvanah and Kane featured in today’s photos.
Thanks to Stephen for a few great photos today too along with this great little video. It’s worth a look, there’s a good chance that if you swam this morning you might just find yourself in it… 🙂
6km swim tomorrow for anyone who is keen to give it a go. We wait in the water off the point at the end of the Shelly swim – re-group and then continue on. It looks like it’s going to be great water for a leisurely long swim 🙂
We have a change of plan for Bruce Paterson’s little get together and celebration of Bruce himself, the special fact that he is our most senior participant and an early birthday get-together for him.
Instead of people bringing a plate to his place on 7th Jan, Bella is going to collect him tomorrow morning, bring him down so he can watch us swim and then importantly join us for brekkie. So if you would like to be part of the celebration of and for Bruce, please come along, bring a cake too if you wish, to the post swim Brekkie at Manly Wine tomorrow !!
Just to confirm the picnic at Bruce’s place the following Saturday has been cancelled.
Last day of the year tomorrow !! What better way to see out 2011 and see in 2012 than by joining your fellow B&B swimmers for a lovely 7am swim… That’s great, so glad you agree… 😉 We look forward to seeing you all, both tomorrow and Sunday morning then ! 🙂
Thank you to everyone who supported our 2012 B&B calendars – I’m very happy to report, we’ve SOLD OUT !! 🙂
Water Temperature 22.4
Air Temperature 20.5
Sunrise 5.46am
Sunset 8.09pm
Low Tide: 6.48am
High Tide: 1.00pm
20 comments
Anna Alvsdotter
December 30, 2011 at 11:32 am
The best postcard I’ve ever seen! Neil, well done on your astronomical effort, and thank you James for the fab graphics.
Life’s short, let’s enjoy it. If you can’t stop for a coffee and little celebration at Manly Wine with Bruce (aka Aquaman or MegaMarathonMan) tomorrow, you may wish to shake his hand or say hi to him when you see him.
Little Sarah abbott
December 30, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Really fabulous card – a great team effort and an amazing achievement, Neil! You certainly inspire us all.
Looking forward to joining Bruce’s celebration tomorrow. Bruce, you’re a real Super Star!
Tim
December 30, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Nice work Neil, going by the postcard you can now call yourself Neil ArmStrong (very strong after swimming all that way)
Nick James
December 30, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Congratulations Neil, truly inspirational. Well done
Iain
December 30, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Check these whales out:
http://media.smh.com.au/?from=hpstrip&sy=smh&source=smh.com.au%2F
Iain
December 30, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Looking forward to having too much cake and baked goods before the inevitable 2012 resolutions on Sunday.
Izzy
December 30, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Well done oh fabulous neil! You rock,!
Xxxx
Izzy
December 30, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Hang on. If we do the 6k we’ll miss Bruce’s do,
Anna Alvsdotter
December 30, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Say hi to him if you see him before the swim 🙂
Anna Alvsdotter
December 30, 2011 at 2:06 pm
“That’s one small step for man; one giant dolphin leap for mankind.”
Neil
December 30, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Thanks Izzy i took my lead from you and the 10km last year!!
Neil
December 30, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Great work from James and lots of respect to Bruce as he escorted me to half way on my first swim.
Neil
December 30, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Thanks Nick
Gaetan
December 30, 2011 at 5:55 pm
looks like Brendan and I will do an early one to QC, meet up at 5:45 tomorrow morning
Iain
December 30, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Well Done Neil!
Champion Effort
heidi
December 30, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Onya Neil. You’re a machine. x
Neil
December 30, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Great to be in the water with so many people that just love to swim
Neil
December 30, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Thanks to you and ragnil for always being there with a welcoming smile and good teamwork ,
Miles
December 30, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Well done Neil! My 5-yr old wants to take you to school for his Show&Tell 🙂
Ragnill
December 31, 2011 at 10:04 am
Thanks for that Neil:-) I really admire you for swimming every day!