Only 140 swimmers turned up today and a lot of the regulars were notably absent. It was a calm, smooth swim with creamy water and a slightly subdued (or hungover) group. If you slept in, you missed another special swim… but we are expecting you all back tomorrow for the B&B 5th Birthday!!! I am guessing we’ll have around 350-400 swimmers tomorrow!
I thought after all my bragging about Thursdays being the best swimming morning, we might have rain today, but no…the sun struggled to get out at times and conditions were pretty much perfect…
Maybe a few of you were feeling like Toohey, too much food and booze…
Mary’s eloquent blogs capture the true swim without any unnatural posing…I prefer to cajole my swimmers in to jumping, smiling crazily and tarting. Drinky’s 6.30amers obliged…
Even caught some swimmers boxing for Boxing Day!
Look how calm and peaceful it is…
Brioney’s back!
Oh and the lovely ladies in their retro bathcaps!
Ian F was a bit quiet today. Too many jelly shots at John Kelly’s Xmas party no doubt.
As you cross the bay, the first bits of blue appear in the sky!
Shelly before most swimmers arrive…
A few heads have been cleared and it’s time to blog tart!(Jeff is getting a right pro!)
The water was ‘creamy’ today, (we like to say that rather than cloudy or murky), but if you swam over the white rocks by the yellow hut you could see beautiful diamond fish illuminated…
gorgeous old wives…
and I saw a grown up goat fish showing his pink bits!
This Wilfdeckericus is a fine looking specimen at 77 years old!
Had to get a photo of Ian running down with a towel for his wife Gail. What a man!
I missed the huge catfish and a flathead with it’s baby, seen by other swimmers but I got the jumping Queens at the end of the swim. Debbie is a fantastic running coach for Can Too (first on left) and she has had lots of practise at joy jumps!
Another ahhh…mazing swim!
How did you go with Lesbubbles’ quizz yesterday? The answers are below!
1.Little Sarah.
2. Snorkels
3. Rainer
4. Ian forster
5. John Kelly
6.Mary
7. Elaine
8. John Bond
9. Lesbubbles
10. Rusty
11. Simon
B&B Attendance Login App
Come on folks – there are so many good reasons to use the B&B Login App. No queues, no need for glasses so you can find your name, and it is eco friendly. With the aim of becoming carbon neutral the B&B Login App reduces our paper consumption. Log your swim between 5am and 9am for the easy way to ensure your swim is recorded in the daily attendance and on the Pacific Challenge.
To get started, send an email to Ian Forster (ugoboyo@gmail.com). He will check that your email address is activated on the attendance register then send you info on how to get started. Happy clicking.
Summer badge swims
Every Saturday during summer there will be a 6km swim – usual route is to Freshwater and back; then once a month there is a 10km swim – this is to South Curl Curl and back. However, the final route depends on conditions that day so it is a good idea to arrive a little early to have a briefing from the designated swim leader. Both swims kick off at 7am.
The next 10km swim is scheduled for 11 January depending on conditions.
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Staying safe
Remember that there are no badges for scaring yourself silly! While it is great to extend your boundaries, it is important to know your limits. Do read these excellent tips on staying safe in the surf. To read, or even download, click here.
STATS:
140 SWIMMERS!
16 NEWBIES
TEMP: 21.4
SUNRISE 5.45am
SEE YOU ALL TOMORROW FOR 5TH ANNIVERSARY SWIM!!!
Lainey Loo aka Elaine
17 comments
ros
26/12/2013 at 1:12 pm
Elaine! Selling ice-creams topless on St Tropez beach! Lesbubbles having an argument with Mick Jagger! I’m speechless!
LSA aka HKTQ
26/12/2013 at 1:20 pm
Yes, great quiz! A little poetic licence by the Blogger’s imagination – ‘naked’ indeed, but what’s a little embellishment amongst friends for a good story:)
I was also shocked to see the buxom brunette was Lainey and good one, Lesbubbles! Lips – drug-trafficking indeed! And Mary, thought you had better taste than Mel….. fascinating all the same! Photo?
At least I got the recycled items correct! And I think Snorkles as the accountant was my second or third guess… so at least I did better than Drinks who got zero:-))
Lainey Loo aka E-laine
26/12/2013 at 1:22 pm
It was actually a nudist beach and we kept our bikinis on for 3 Summers but when all the other sellers accused us of being prudish we were forced to drop the tops. It was the 80’s…
Fiona
26/12/2013 at 1:23 pm
Great blog.Emma & I’s inaugural appearance….in the blending-in-with-the-crowd floral caps. A few people enquired where to get them so here ye go:
http://www.headcovers.com/swim-caps/swim-caps/
LSA aka HKTQ
26/12/2013 at 1:24 pm
…oh and beautiful swim, great pics, Lainy. it was very peaceful. Promise to practise by boxing skills for next year:)
JeffwithaJ
26/12/2013 at 1:29 pm
Lots of fun photos. Thanks Lainey!
Lainey
26/12/2013 at 3:56 pm
I’ve just ordered 4! love them!
Mary
26/12/2013 at 3:58 pm
Ha ha! Mel and I were stage struck teenagers. We hung out together until he did the Max Max movies. A wild boy but lots if fun 🙂
Mary
26/12/2013 at 3:59 pm
…. Damn iPhone. That is Mad Max!!!
LSA aka HKTQ
26/12/2013 at 4:23 pm
It all comes out with the B&B! Recently saw a documentary on the young Mel – so charismatic from the get-go too!
Bill McHireCar
26/12/2013 at 4:56 pm
Hey Lesbubbles, I drove Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts 10 years ago on the “Licks” tour. 3 weeks hanging around the back doors of concerts and the Four Seasons hotel at The Rocks. The Bouncers for the whole world tour were all from Chicago and we had to find hamburger takeaways after midnight. One of our guys was the backing group’s drug dealer 🙂 Shhhhhhhh
LSA aka HKTQ
26/12/2013 at 6:10 pm
Ha, ha… looking f/w to Lesley’s Mick story…. as it happens, I have one too, going back to the 60’s – but no arguments or drug dealing that I recall!
I was a teenager at Chichester High School and a few of us would hang out in The Crypt , an underground coffee house nearby. Mick & Co would also pop in there from time to time – until Brian Jones was found dead at his house a mile down the road in ’69.
LSA aka HKTQ
26/12/2013 at 7:02 pm
OK, tomorrow, last chance to do a leisurely bolder-shelly-crawl with me before I return in Feb. Snorkles is an ‘almost-definite’, so bound to be super fun if she staggers out of bed!
Meet 5.40, in the water 5.45. latest, so we have time to get to Shelly for the anniversary blog-tarting celebrations:-)
Snorkles
26/12/2013 at 7:43 pm
I won’t lie I’m nervous…..but I think I have to give it a go before we let LSA head on overseas again.
If I’m ever going to attempt this 6km malarkey I need to at least understand a 3km!
Helen (Duckie) laughed at me earlier when I said I needed to learn where to go!
If I didn’t have a 60km cycle ride and a big night out tomorrow….I’d be a definite, definite not just a maybe definite ….
LSA aka HKTQ
26/12/2013 at 8:19 pm
Snorkles, forget about the cycle ride and big night out til after the swim and you’ll be super-energised! I have a very long day of travel ahead and still setting my alarm early…. one stroke at a time:)
Snorkles
27/12/2013 at 5:21 am
I’m on my way!!
Mark cobotooz
26/10/2014 at 10:27 pm
We do this in Guernsey. Much colder than fantastic Sydney.