When I was younger it was great to stay up all night and get to see the sunrise, but now sadly ! an older & wiser me loves to get up early to see the sunrises & what a cracka it was !!!
Iphones & cameras were all snapping the sunrise on the beaches today , No doubt Facebook will be just littered with great shots !
No need for wetsuits with the temperatures on the rise !!
The 6.30ers or the Drinky Express getting ready for a swim in the dark.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Booty campers getting ready for their morning ritual of welcoming the sunrise.
The Booty campers are praying for a good sunrise & their wish was granted, well done guys & gals
well actually all gals !!
Nick reaching in to wind Wilf up for his swim.
Nick said he had just got out of bed, even tho the Mrs (Sharnie)had been down to Boot camp an hour before ! might have to get in shape for summer Nick.
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| Ian R Forster |  14 swims / 3 wks, needs 6 swims / 4 wks |
Jenny our Tuesday blogger contemplates the lovely 17.8 degrees
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
The secret of getting ahead, is getting started !
Change your life and come down for a swim, you will never regret it.
What is Piloxing? Piloxing is a fitness program that blends the best of Pilates, boxing and dance into a high-energy interval workout that incorporates interval and barefoot training to burn maximum calories and increase stamina. Helen is teaching a gold coin donation class on Saturday at 1 pm at Yoga Collective Manly at 169 Pittwater Road if you want to try it out.
Lainey the cuttlefish lady finds the remains of 2 cuttlefish bones at Halfway beach.
Wilf & Gayle.
Swimmer of the Day Roger our the fantastic Friday blogger.
Chasing Roger is Todd Nevin 
needing just one swim to match Roger
Triple Nude Challenge
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Jim Hudson had the family cheer quad down to witness his 400K’s
Well done Jim !!
203 400.5km Jim Hudson
Milly has the right idea all snuggled up to her lovely mum Lucy.
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“Motley Crue” @ Bluewater
Leisa, Alice & Wendy having a post swim de-brief.
Jennifer said she looks at the blog to see if she made it in !
So as a blogger you know what that means….
Well today she did !!!
She works at Manly Fast Ferries FYI
| Jennifer Wilson | 14 swims / 6 wks, need 6 swims / 1 wk |
“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Have a great day ! Mine started out great !!!
Love you all ! !
Shelly Xo
9 comments
jackie
22/07/2015 at 12:33 pm
Rocky swim this morning. If anyone finds a blue and yellow flipper – I would love it back. Lost it in the surf coming into manly with the drinks express.
Gillian
22/07/2015 at 1:33 pm
So if the water temperature keeps rising and I leave my wettie at home to swim the 8/20 when I got soft, do I get a WWW???
elizabeth
22/07/2015 at 1:49 pm
Fabulous and comprehensive blog. Again. see this article on zombie jellyfish by Tim Flannery
To understand why jellyfish are taking over, we need to understand where they live and how they breed, feed, and die. Jellyfish are almost ubiquitous in the oceans. As survivors of an earlier, less hospitable world, they can flourish where few other species can venture. Their low metabolic rate, and thus low oxygen requirement, allows them to thrive in waters that would suffocate other marine creatures. Some jellyfish can even absorb oxygen into their bells, allowing them to “dive” into oxygen-less waters like a diver with scuba gear and forage there for up to two hours.
Jellyfish reproduction is astonishing, and no small part of their evolutionary success: “Hermaphroditism. Cloning. External fertilization. Self fertilization. Courtship and copulation. Fission. Fusion. Cannibalism. You name it, jellyfish [are] ‘doing it.’” But perhaps the most unusual thing is that their eggs do not develop immediately into jellyfish. Instead they hatch into polyps, which are small creatures resembling sea anemones. The polyps attach to hard surfaces on the sea floor, and are particularly fond of man-made structures, on which they can form a continuous jelly coating. As they grow, the polyps develop into a stack of small jellyfish growing atop each other that look rather like a stack of coins. When conditions are right, each “coin” or small jellyfish detaches and swims free. In a few days or weeks, a jellyfish bloom is observed.
One of the fastest breeders of all is Mnemiopsis. Biologists characterize it as a “self-fertilizing simultaneous hermaphrodite,” which means that it doesn’t need a partner to reproduce, nor does it need to switch from one sex to the other, but can be both sexes at once. It begins laying eggs when just thirteen days old, and is soon laying 10,000 per day. Even cutting these prolific breeders into pieces doesn’t slow them down. If quartered, the bits will regenerate and resume normal life as whole adults in two to three days.
Jellyfish are voracious feeders. Mnemiopsis is able to eat over ten times its own body weight in food, and to double in size, each day. They can do this because they are, metabolically speaking, tremendously efficient, being able to put more of the energy they ingest toward growth than the more complex creatures they compete with. And they can be wasteful. Mnemiopsis acts like a fox in a henhouse. After they gorge themselves, they continue to collect and kill prey. As far as the ecosystem goes, the result is the same whether the jellyfish digest the food or not: they go on killing until there is nothing left. That can happen quickly. One study showed that Mnemiopsis removed over 30 percent of the copepod (small marine crustaceans) population available to it each day.
Jellyfish “can eat anything, and often do,” Gershwin says. Some don’t even need to eat, in the usual sense of the word. They simply absorb dissolved organic matter through their epidermis. Others have algae living in their cells that provide food through photosynthesis.
The question of jellyfish death is vexing. If jellyfish fall on hard times, they can simply “de-grow.” That is, they reduce in size, but their bodies remain in proportion. That’s a very different outcome from what is seen in starving fish, or people. And when food becomes available again, jellyfish simply recommence growing. Some individual jellyfish live for a decade. But the polyp stage survives pretty much indefinitely by cloning. One polyp colony started in 1935 and studied ever since is still alive and well in a laboratory in Virginia.
One kind of jellyfish, which might be termed the zombie jelly, is quite literally immortal. When Turritopsis dohrnii “dies” it begins to disintegrate, which is pretty much what you expect from a corpse. But then something strange happens. A number of cells escape the rotting body. These cells somehow find each other, and reaggregate to form a polyp. All of this happens within five days of the jellyfish’s “death,” and weirdly, it’s the norm for the species.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/sep/26/jellyfish-theyre-taking-over/?pagination=false
Elizabeth X
22/07/2015 at 2:38 pm
Aaagh !!! And we thought thermonuclear indestructible cockroaches were bad ! Jellyfish apocolypse !
Jenny@inspireupt.com.au
22/07/2015 at 3:12 pm
Great Blog Shelley, wondering if there is a B&B member who will be around on Sat / Sun willing to bring my 81 yr old Dad into the Manly club around 7am.
Dad, ( Grahame Kent) has been a member of Nth Wollongong SLSC since the 1930’s and still goes to the beach every day. I’m bringing him up to Syd as Special treat this weekend Mum passed away back in May and this is his first trip up to sydney after caring for her for many years.
I have spoken to Robin Smith from Manly SLSC has told me that if a Manly SLSC member can bring him into the club as a guest from Nth Wollongong he will be welcome. He is a clubbie from way back and I know that he would be so thrilled if this could be made possible. If anyone can help me out with this I would be greatful. Pls txt me Mob 0434605605. Thanks jenny :))
DWSS
22/07/2015 at 3:19 pm
I thought I saw them at the boatshed and then again at the kebab shop!
That answers a few questions.
Jane
22/07/2015 at 3:34 pm
More photo triumphs: Elaine’s lovely pic of the Diamondfish now on the OzMus website:
http://australianmuseum.net.au/image/diamondfish-in-cabbage-tree-bay
Simon
22/07/2015 at 6:22 pm
Another enjoyable blog Ian, thanks for including me in the shot with Lucy & Milly
Jane
22/07/2015 at 6:28 pm
That is fascinating! Penny Berendts is our expert on these critters – she could probably tell us a lott more.