26/5/13 – Absolutely the Most Fun You Can Have Upside Down!

Sunday Morning – We know the surf’s up and the air’s a little nippy but we know the beautiful 21.3c water’s waiting for us

The Surf Jedi were conferencing….

 

 

The waves are nice and clean and not too dumpy…

 

The debris is almost at the top of the ramp – impressive.

 

 

 

 

Time to go… the air temp was 9.5c at 7am…….the water feels nice and warm on your toes as we get in..

 

There’s always time for a quick Macarena…

 

This was the view on the way out….

 

All smiles on the point as usual…

 

 

We invented a new yoga pose – “Holding the Sun”

 

 

 

There was some congratulating at Shelley – for making it over and now the discussion on getting back. It was a cleaner swim over this morning – not as choppy and a lot of fun

 

 

Just “Winning!”

 

The swim back was one of the most fun we’ve seen. The waves were great to surf in on.. I almost went back out! There was a lot of first time surfers in our group who had a ball.

For essential tips on surf safety – See Michael and Riddo’s section here

I’m definitely going back for more tomorrow!

 

 

Some pics from earlier in the week … (Lesbubbles is going to kill me but this is her diving deep for the old wives …)

 

 

 

The Sergeant Baker – replacing the cuttlefish, who’s having a rest from us….

 

 

The lovely Sacha and Co. have come up with an exclusive offer for us at Whitewater as they have a new menu.

Hopefully Kirsty will be working there and we can all go in and pay with $50 notes (cos they love that)

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And now let’s finish off by congratualting ourselves for just taking the time to swim today…. and a nice relaxed mantra…

Ooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm swimmers 140 mmmmmmmmm new swimmers 3 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm water temp 21.3c mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sunrise 6:47am mmmmmmmmmmm sunset 4:56pm

WINTER BADGE – Starts June 1st. To qualify swim minimum 20 times in 7 different weeks. Each week starts on a Monday and there are 14 weeks in the season.

AND if you go
without a wetsuit you also qualify for the Winter Without Wetsuit (WWW)
badge! Put a W by your name every time you tick the attendance.

To celebrate the start of Winter Badge Season which is a Saturday (1 June) – please come down wearing a ONE-SIE (or jumpsuit) – the funnier the better!!

AND let’s make it a charity event!

Please bring a gold coin on Sat June 1st and we will donate it to the Royal Far West Hopsital!

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Speaking of
badges there is also another NEW BADGE – the 500 km badge! See the
Pacific Challenge top left of the blog to see how many km’s you’ve swum –
if you’ve hit 500 or more you get a badge….(for $10)

33 People have already qualified for their badge – they will be presented at our NEXT monthly dinner at Bluewater – Tuesday 4^th June at 6.30pm (or any time after that night). See the “management” for more details!

ALSO at the
above dinner one of our swimmers Dr Ray Hodgson will be giving a talk
about the work he does in Nepal with women who suffer prolapse after
child birth. He organises trips for volunteers for 2 week stints and is
always looking out for more volunteers to go to Nepal and help. If you
want to hear from someone who is making a difference to peoples lives
and want to find out what you can do to help, then come along to the
dinner.

TO BOOK INTO THE NEXT MONTHLY DINNER PLEASE RSVP HERE!!

We want to
get as MANY people as we can that night so we can book the whole
restaurant out!!!! Remember it’s only $20 for a starter AND main course
of delicious food!! Desserts and drinks are only $5 each and no corkage
on wine!! Bluwater now offer a special $25 menu too.

 

Have a great week….