Over 150 Bold & Beautiful swimmers
enjoy a fantastic fun filled morning with gorgeous, vibrant people who have beautiful hearts and lovely smiles 🙂 It’s no wonder we’re Manly’s most popular daily drama… who wouldn’t be attracted to be a part of this !
This morning the ocean was a bit of a fairground with multiple attractions. First up, the wave machine
plus you can always get your photo taken with a local celebrity while you wait in the queue
then there’s the big dipper with a birds eye view of Manly as you reach the top
and the roller coaster as you swim across the bay
A few good deeds to be done along the way too as Anna salvaged this rashie from the ocean floor, saving some poor marine creature from getting caught up in it.
Ian F likes to do it Goerge Formby style… MUST LISTEN HERE… !!! 🙂
The lovely Shelly pit stop, with some words of encouragement for the return trip
Some people set off hard on the “Let’s Go”
Others prefer to take it easy and ‘lay low’
The under water viz wasn’t all that clear today, but it was clear enough to see I had a friendly entourage accompany me some of the way
My view from the front of a little wave that I actually managed to catch
It wasn’t a patch on the wave Wilf watched Scott M catch though… all the way from the point to
the sand !! Wilf wants to sign up for some lessons please Scott 🙂
Everyone enjoying another fabulous, healthy start to their day !
Alan (featured below) daughter, Sarah Thomson who is one of our great sponsors as owner
& physio at Innovations Sports Physiotherapy, came 13th in her age
group in the Full IronMan at Bussleton last weekend in under 11 hours !! Amazing
effort Sarah, very well done !!
Please don’t forget to support our terrific sponsors.
There are some new ones being added later today too so keep your eyes peeled
for the latest exclusive B&B offers. You never know they may just hold the answer to your Christmas shopping. Check them all out here to take full advantage of our exclusive B&B discounts.
17 Bolderdashers, a few early lappers to Shelly and 6 doublers all made the most of this morning’s beautiful playground
Our seriously cute personalised B&B Christmas Party decorations are in pride of place on Nick and Mariah’s Christmas Tree as I’m sure they are on many peoples. Thank you ‘Wall of Thought’ xx
B&B 2013 Calendars are on sale NOW here !!
$20 each with $5 of every sale going to our Royal Far West, a local charity caring for country kids.
- Gold coin donation BBQ Breakfast at Royal Far West on Sat 22nd Dec, to kick off our exciting new partnership with them.
Everyone is welcome, so please come along and get to know more about
the wonderful work they do there on Sat 22nd Dec straight after the
swim. Please see the invite below from RFW.
- Adventure Swim – Night swim with glow sticks,
torches, at 8pm so we set off as the sun sets and
finish at last light 🙂 Thursday 20th December. Regular B&Bswim, Manly to Shelly and back! Drinks afterwards. (I hope!)
- CHRISTMAS DAY !!! 7am Swim to Manly return as usual followed by BBQ Breakfast, byo and share at Shelly Beach as soon as you wish after the swim.
- B&B’s 4th Birthday Party Swim, Thursday 27th December we
might be celebrating 4000 swimmers and a world record too… we
currently have a submission in with the Guinness World Records for the
worlds largest daily open water swimming group !! Oh and it’s one of our swimmers 30th birthday that day too. So many reasons to celebrate 🙂
Water Temperature 20.9
Air Temperature 20.0
Sunrise 5.38am
Sunset 8.01pm
Low Tide: 9.33am
High Tide: 4.15pm
To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
Some art from Stephen to finish
See ya’s all same time, same place tomorrow. Don’t forget you can join Saturday, 6km Summer Badge Swim… 🙂
15 comments
Michael [EX CI]
14/12/2012 at 12:12 pm
Sarah T, Well done! An awesome performance!!
Little Sarah Abbott
14/12/2012 at 1:09 pm
Far more fun than a fairground!!
Yes, Lips announced there’d be no blog-tarting today as he was laying low:-)
Good news: Sunday’s Mystery Blogging will be starting soon. Tim Ettle has kindly agreed to be in charge and promises to swim again. We’ve recruited two Mystery Back-up Bloggers and are now holding auditions for more Mystery Bloggers to make cameo appearances. Please let me or Jules know if interested or willing.
(note: you’ll have to learn the tricks of the trade from Jules or another Blogger. E-Lane will assure anyone that it’s simple and stress-free:-))
john S
14/12/2012 at 1:32 pm
I’ve just noticed Michael C just topped 900 kms recently.
Congrats! HUGE effort.
MC, Will you make the tonne before enforced LOA?
Oh, And a nicely worded, family orientated, happy blog!
😉
Jane
14/12/2012 at 1:48 pm
Oh Ian – that hilarious George Formby song REALLY took me back – just as good as “When I’m Cleaning Windows”, and so apt for your adventurous early morning activities.
E-lane
14/12/2012 at 3:45 pm
Your photos are amazing Jules! Don’t know how you do it. You always make the swim sound so exciting we can’t wait to come back for more! Love the fairground analogy.Greg McDonaugh’s smiley face is fantastic. So many inspiring people!!!
Hope the newbies come back. They should feel very proud doing the swim today with the surf and the sight of the bluebottle attack at the beginning. (Hope the guy is Ok.)
Michael [EX CI]
14/12/2012 at 4:58 pm
Hi Jon, I’ll turn up for a Bolderdash tomorrow! See you in the am.
JonA
14/12/2012 at 5:04 pm
Thanks, Mike! I’ll see you then (will aim to be there in good time).
John
14/12/2012 at 5:50 pm
Yes Michael,well done on passing the 900k mark. I had better get a move on.
Mark
14/12/2012 at 6:01 pm
I intend on going dashing too
DWSS
14/12/2012 at 6:37 pm
Great blog Sarah. Friendly, witty, and intelligent.
I am slightly astounded that Matt has so easily located and photographed the rare (thought to be extinct) Bradless Lucy.
After months of tracking, two rare sightings AND photographic evidence in one day.
I can’t help but think that some people are trying to play tricks with my mind. Well done.
DWSS
14/12/2012 at 6:38 pm
900km
Awesome Michael. Well done
Little Sarah Abbott
14/12/2012 at 7:33 pm
Glad you liked it:-) I think it was all that biceps training that helped Matt find a Bradless Lucy:-))
Pacific Jules
14/12/2012 at 9:32 pm
Haha LSA, sorry to disappoint you but this is another Matt. I dont think youve fondled this ones biceps… Yet !! 😉
Neil Richardson
15/12/2012 at 5:22 am
I am still following with interest from afar! Michael C’s 900 km is a fantastic achievement, and puts our Thames efforts here in the UK into perspective! As a matter of interest, over what period have the Pacific Challenge distances been accumulated?
Pacific Jules
15/12/2012 at 6:34 am
Great to hear from u Neil. The Pacific Challenge has been accumulating since 1st June 2011, so ~18months.