19/01/14 Swimming back to front

19/01/201414

Morning Manly.

Turning up this morning, you will have noticed that the waves had settled somewhat. Yippee!

The tables were set up in a different spot this morning and swimmers and morning joggers were mixing well along the footpath. Plenty of room for all.

An early morning stretch is always advisable.

The paparazzi were gathered and taking photos …..for a moment we all thought it was someone interesting…..

A B&B’er was posing unashamedly at the waters edge….’Who could it be?’

On closer inspection, we noticed it was only Nick and continued with more important matters like …..swimming.

Swimmers were excited to be going in from the beach again BUT after a word with the surf club and so not to get tangled in with the nippers, JK gathered us and explained our alternative course.

A whopping forty new people joined us today. Welcome. These cheeky four love swimming!

A colourful trio, puts my all black rashie to shame!

JK said we would “Start at Shelly beach, swim to The Point, then back to Shelly”. So 256 swimmers gathered their bags, caps, thongs, towels, goggles, dogs, children and headed off to our alternative start point.

Round towards the point, the line started off ….

Round the corner, they kept coming……

As far as the eye could see ….a whole procession of those swimmers in the pink caps.

….and they kept coming…..

And more…..

….still heading ….

At Half Way the crowd split a little. Some decided on a ‘Half way to Shelly, to the point and Shelly’. Some decided on a ‘Half way to the point, then to Shelly, then half way’ and so on!

Ian even looked a little lost.

Swimmers braved the small surf at Half Way.

Waiting for a break in the set.

Then we arrived at our Half Way point, The Point (yes I was confused to) and bobbed and waited for all to join us.

A great exercise in working out who knows where The Point is.

JK reminding everyone.

In this photo ….I can’t see the surf club, which means I’m not at The Point!

Murky waters gave me only this underwater shot today.

Heading back to Shelly, or Half Way, or Shelly then Half Way or whatever! Options a plenty!

Photos at Shelly look a little lost today….as these were taken at the end of the swim.

We took advantage of the different showers though!

Heading back to Manly. An upside down swim at its best.

Picked up some swimmers getting out at Half Way.

Even a different pup hangs out at a different spot.

The one piece that remains the same is the post swim catch up with friends and a great coffee.

Lost and found: these keys were found at Shelly beach. If they are yours please leave a comment on the blog or see Ian Forster at any swim.

Stats:

New swimmers:40

Total:256

Water temp:21.1

Sun up:6:03

Sun down:20:07

Signing off:Snorkles (pic with my Sis as it’s her birthday today!)

*Corinne M and myself will be swimming a very slow 6km next Sat, if you want to join us, contact me (Sharon Dunn) or Corinne McDevitt on the Bold & Beautiful Swimmers FB page…..we are very slow, never done it before and would love some company, whichever route is decided on the day!

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14 comments

Ness
19/01/2014 at 11:31 am

Great Blog snorkels, missing my swims but love reading all about them. Happy birthday to your sister!

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Marije
19/01/2014 at 11:37 am

I really like the 2 photos that both have 2 swimmers on them going in half way! I thought the water was pretty cold today. Looking forward to some clearer waters.

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david
19/01/2014 at 12:06 pm

Water was great this morning.
great pics with everyone galloping down tonlittlevshelly”s.
I think my Coogee, bronte and clovelly are becoming very boring!
Love Manly!
David from Coogee.
Love swimming with the group.

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Lesbubbles
19/01/2014 at 12:41 pm

Ooh I miss 1 day and something exciting happens!! Shelly to the point and back! Never did that before!

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Elaine de Jager
19/01/2014 at 1:22 pm

Some great photos Snorks. Love the ones at The Point. I’d love to do 6km with you guys on Saturday and clock up the kms on The Pacific Challenge! If anyone still can sponsor us Coastreckers for Fred Hollows the details are on yesterday’s blog. Thank you so much those of you who have already.

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Pacific Jules
19/01/2014 at 2:17 pm

Fab blog Snorkles 🙂
Favourite photo definitely the one of the 2 swimmers going in at half way beach !
Happy birthday to ur sister

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ros
19/01/2014 at 2:41 pm

Great stuff Snorkles – I was thoroughly confused by today’s upside down swim and will need the rest of the day to recover.

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Lips
19/01/2014 at 3:51 pm

Same here Ros! I spent hours over Google Maps trying to make sense of it all. My head’s still spinning..
Great blog Snorks!

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Alyson
19/01/2014 at 4:02 pm

Wow how crowded was the path on the walk to half way? Great photos

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Simon
19/01/2014 at 8:53 pm

Enjoyed the blog Sharon. What is you cute nieces name?

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Snorkles
19/01/2014 at 9:13 pm

Yes we thought we would Lesbubbles, just because you weren’t there today 😉

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Snorkles
19/01/2014 at 9:14 pm

Thanks Elaine. John Bind tells me it will probably be harbour side ….

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Snorkles
19/01/2014 at 9:14 pm

I’m still stick at Shelly trying to work out just where I left my bag.

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Snorkles
19/01/2014 at 9:15 pm

That’s Macy when she was younger!

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