108 Bold and Beautiful swimmers enjoyed slightly less chop today with still some fairly big waves hammering us as we entered the water but nothing so scary (for me at least)!
Water cooler too – by about 2 degrees…
Waiting at the point Elaine found a baseball cap with barnacles and seaweed growing on it – it’s own little eco system – but the best part was, written on the cap were the words LIVE SIMPLY – very fitting for the ‘skinny’ blog today!
A bit less rubbish in the water today too – I only found 4 pieces of plastic…but I did find half a tv on the beach (I put it in the bin!)
Visibility was about 3 metres – and the last 200 metres coming into Shelly the sea bed was visible again!
Although it looks like the end of the week the weather, stong winds, bigger seas and more rain! Awesome!
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Stephen spotted this in the Financial Review yesterday about BnB swimmer Tony Stuart. Amazing…even in a financial newspaper about technology and apps we get a mention!!
And glad to see he reads the blogs!! How is today’s more skinny version Tony? 😀
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Anyone interested in the Balmoral Swim? March 17th… Maybe some Bold and Beautiful swimmers could put a team together and beat those Balmoral Buggers?
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STATS:
Regular Shelly swimmers: 108 (3 new people!)
Bolderdashers: 8
Doublers: Z.E.R.O!
Waves: YES!
Stingers/jellies/blubbers: None that I felt!
Rubbish: a bit
Visibility: getting slightly better
Water Temperature: 21.6
Sunrise/Sunset
Bye for now – Lesbutt – “brave one – who never goes to halfway”
19 comments
Little Sarah Abbott aka Hong Kong Triad Queen
27/02/2013 at 12:09 pm
An incredible sky just before sunrise – well worth being on the beach before 6.30, the earlier the better. Best part of the day!
That’s the incentive for the last ‘official’ bolderdash tomorrow…..
Lips, missing my swim-buddy. I hear you’re missing maggots and seaweed and all we have to offer as you laze on your Hamilton Island sun-bed:-)
Laney-Loo formerly known as E-lane
27/02/2013 at 12:15 pm
Lesbutt has put together a fantastic video of our swim last Tuesday but is a bit shy about putting the link to it on the blog. We want it don’t we guys?
Little Sarah Abbott aka Hong Kong Triad Queen
27/02/2013 at 12:26 pm
Yes please, Lesbutt!
Rumour has it there’s a great bit of film of Lips congratulating one of our amazing celeb Iron Women stars. Wonder who it is?
Alyson
27/02/2013 at 12:47 pm
yes we do want it!! Its fabulous!! 🙂
Inez
27/02/2013 at 2:06 pm
What do we want? GREAT VIDEO! When do we want it? NOW!
Lesle
27/02/2013 at 2:09 pm
Now with that buildup yr all gonna be disappointed when you see it:-D
lesley
27/02/2013 at 2:31 pm
ok here it is … remember it was filmed on a basic normal camera – the music is the best part – if you watch without music and it’s crap! :-DD
http://youtu.be/8tLS4BigtLs
Inez
27/02/2013 at 2:32 pm
Seen it already. Sent link to my sister in the US. She wants to swim with us when she visits next month. Stop being so modest.
Little Sarah Abbott aka Hong Kong Triad Queen
27/02/2013 at 3:02 pm
Well done, Les – it’s beautiful! Now, why not join us for a super-slow last boldercrawl in the morning for another one?
Secret Squirrel
27/02/2013 at 4:42 pm
Hi Pretty Leslie
If this is the one I’ve seen, it’s great and you’re talented and very pretty and have great choice in music!
Share it to the world!! (or the B&Bers)!
😉
Secret Squirrel
27/02/2013 at 4:54 pm
Now Pretty Leslie
I’ve just checked this one out and it’s lovely, great, superb!!!!
Please put the first one up to share too!
And for being too modest you’re doing a bilderdish tomorrow with LSA and myself! See you at 6.15am.
DWSS
27/02/2013 at 5:17 pm
Nice pick up lesbutt from Mr NRMA executive Mr Tony Stuart.
Tony, as you check out our blog daily, how about putting on a pink cap and joining us.
Come down and ask for the dolphin whisperer. Ill look after you.
Great blog Lesbutt. You are a rare creature, beauty, brains AND talent.
Stephen is a lucky man. 🙂
How about the sunrise this morning. Awesome!!
Robbie Byrne
27/02/2013 at 5:26 pm
Still looking for a few more people to go to the 100things.com.au charity night at the Steyne on March 8th. Email me at rob@bobbyjackinternational.com if you are keen. $50, all going to charity and you get 4 drinks and food for your $$.
Great charity, surely we can raise $500 between the 4,000 of us!!??
Jen Darvey (formerly B&BwannaB a real person)
27/02/2013 at 6:30 pm
They were sincere reflective comments. No malice intended.
Dolphin Whisperer
27/02/2013 at 6:46 pm
Hi Jen
???
Who what where?
Jen Darvey (formerly B&BwannaB a real person)
27/02/2013 at 7:00 pm
Ask the B&B management
Jen Darvey (formerly B&BwannaB a real person)
27/02/2013 at 7:02 pm
Thank you for talking to me.
Lesley
27/02/2013 at 9:06 pm
Jen there is no B&B management. Never has been, never will be. When i wrote that on comments a few weeks ago it was tongue in cheek ..a joke..because i thought bnbwannabe was one of our regular swimmers mucking about with us. Please refer back to your reveal comment on skinny swim day.. And see what i wrote…and a few other people also replied to your comment. We look forward to meeting you..come and swim with us soon 🙂
Jen Darvey (formerly B&BwannaB a real person)
28/02/2013 at 5:31 am
I don’t know who’s been delegated to do what with Jules away. The B&B Management sounded a believable term for the operational arrangements.
I did at first take the comment as tongue in cheek, as was my reply. Aren’t most things on the blog? Despite this, there was an uneasiness that maybe this was real and I had gone over the line and my presence was becoming a ‘problem’. Going through the archive of my comments on Typepad I thought I’d established myself as a genuine person. The pressure to ‘reveal’ myself (get down and do the swim) was increasing. Not a good idea when you have a bit of a panic attack trying the halfway on your own. I was getting around to asking for a swim buddy.
Being blocked on the Typepad nailed the meaning.
The string of welcoming invitations to come and swim after ‘revealing’ myself and producing a real name was weird. Never had that as B&BwannaB. Hence, my to the B&B Management email. Didn’t mean to get Jules into this. Didn’t know who the contact was for this sort of thing.
I can partly understand how my identity was misconstrued.
I’ll repeat my comment that disappeared from the blog.( 26/02/13).
It hurts.
The dangers of social media.