What a morning!

Seeing the soft early light when I stepped out of my door shortly after 6am made me happy. I knew it was going to be a Good Morning. The conditions of the ocean only served to lift my spirits. And a car spot outside Far West – who can ask for more?

Made it just in time to catch the Drinks Express heading out at 6:30, at the same time as some ski paddlers from the surf club

Trying (with limited success) to be arty

 

And here, how can you improve on perfection?

 

Meanwhile things were hotting up on the path. Maybe, but not in the water. Theories abound for the low water temps.

 

Folk were gathering, talking about last night’s activities. Some were out partying, some stayed in and watched the telly, some slept.

The welcoming committee, waiting to greet the newbies (no idea how many, but I hope you had a fabulous swim)

 

Wows making the morning look good

Heading down to the water were (at a rough guess) around 200 eager swimmers

snapping the paps

Belinda happy and eager for a mermaid frolic

Hi Janet!

Paula executing the famous ColdWaterAsana, enabling a full-bodied scream from the throat chakra

At Shelley. For some, the blog camera is a magnet

 

I waited a while at Shelley in the hope of seeing some of the sights on the way back.

yass!!!!

 

 

 

The cuttlefish was quite obliging to his very large fan club. The groper and crimson morwong not so much. The yellowtail were just doing their thing

And this. I usually edit my photos and am posting both the edited and unedited versions here. Can you see what’s there? It’s very, very well camouflaged

 

And these on the sand, also cunningly camouflaged

 

 

I saw this yesterday. Here’s the original and my attempt to be clever with  the Snapseed photo editing app

 

The magic mushroom of the ocean

And then to drift shorewards until slowly, reluctantly, feet touch the sand, you stand and walk out of the water.

This is Lisa yesterday. looking stunning in Belinda’s gorgeous hat

What am I listening to?

Recently I learned that Ray Davies had released an album called Americana a year or so ago and I have it on high rotation. All I can say is the master has not lost his songwriting awesomeness. (Please, please don’t ask me who Ray Davies is, I would get horribly depressed)

Even more recently the latest album by Courtney Barnett. It was only released last week and it’s called Tell Me How You Really Feel. I’m loving it.

Have decided to include a track with oceanic links on my blog posts. This is a bit of a stretch but it’s Kim’s Caravan from Courtney’s first album.

Have a great week

Management notices

Tim Slessor who is a long time B&B swimmer is competing in the Shitbox Rally again in two weeks. The aim is to buy a car for less than a grand and drive it, along with 200 others, from Brisbane it Darwin, OFF ROAD!!

Shitbox Rally is a dedicated fundraising event for cancer research with funds going to Cancer Council.

Cancer Council is one of the largest non-government funders of cancer research in Australia. We conduct and fund research studies across all cancers and all stages of the cancer journey.

Thanks to the community funds raised such as Shitbox Rally we can fund world-class research that reduces the impact of cancer for everyone.

Over $13 million has been raised by Box Rallies to date.

Please click on the link to donate to this worthy cause and thank you all.

https://donate18.shitboxrally.com.au/a-pom-and-a-kiwi

Julia Chalon, one of our swimmers has interviewed Julie Isbill, the B&B founder for a blog.  It’s very interesting and attached here;

https://www.thrivhers.com/meet-the-thrivhers/thrivher-interview-dr-julie-isbill