One small step…

There wasn’t much talk  today of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, so there’s your reference and lets get to the topic of today. Swimming in the sea.

A sizeable contingent of ski and board paddlers. Not a bad way to start a morning as we all know.

 

Shortly joined by the swimmers. Dry weather, light offshore wind and a small swell with lots of southerly in it give us the conditions we like.

 

 

Warmer than yesterday. Just.

 

The 6:30s heading off

 

 

Matt with a UFO (the probes!)

 

Andrew was honing his blog tart skills today.

 

 

Keep practicing, Andrew, it’s a time honoured tradition

This is James. James is a distance ocean swimmer, well known among us and has just written an autobiography. He has asked for some photos for it. The plan was to go to Shelley but you know, plans.  John B, Alanna and I swam with him in search of the perfect photo opportunity and in so doing visited many areas of the bay, Not sure if we got the perfect photo, hope one will be good enough.

 

 

 

 

One teeny catfish

Cat in A Hat and Bananas in Pyjamas

Aahhh, coffee

Found in the ladies’ change room. It will be with our lost property tomorrow

Coco and Baci

 

Until tomorrow….

Management notices:

 

The Monthly Dinner – 13^th August 2019 – Guest Speaker

 

The Next B&B monthly dinner for the year will be held on Tuesday 13th August at 6.30 pm at Bluewater Restaurant. Our guest on the night will be B&B Swimmer, Duncan Young, who is the head of health and wellbeing for Lendlease. The title of Duncan’s talk will be ‘Does the ideas of living to 100 excite you or fill you with dread?’ He will speak about ‘living and working in the age of longevity’, what can we learn from super-agers about elongating our healthy lifespans? Don’t miss this very interesting presentation.

 

Please book early for this event as it is sure to be popular. The cost of the dinner is great value at only $25 a head, which includes shared entrees, and a selection of mains to choose from (including a vegetarian option). Glasses of beer or wine and desserts are also available at the special price of only $5 each. Numbers are limited, so bookings are essential. To avoid disappointment and secure your spot please book at www.boldandbeautifulmanly.com.au/bb-bluewater-monthly-dinner.html

Here’ s an idea that B&B swimmers who live in the Manly electorate might like to support – A Festival of Seaweed!

The Sydney Institute of Marine Science together with Dorset and Anne put forward an idea for a science, art, food festival around seaweed.  and they are now at the stage of promoting the project to locals to encourage their vote. It’s through the NSW Government Generation fund.  The community submit  projects for review, but the decision as to which project receives funding rests with the Manly electorate community who are able to vote for their preferred projects. They are now at the stage of promoting the project to locals to encourage their vote. All the information is on the SIMS website – see link below with all the detail, including relevant links for voting, plus the attached document

http://engonet-sims.azurewebsites.net/news/77/my-community-project

 

 

 

 

What am I listening to? Well, being the anniversary of the moon landing…… Space Oddity? Too predictable. The Joker (Some people call me the space cowboy)? Naah.

Something a little less well known.

https://youtu.be/-NjdfOoPK9c