Over 74 Bold & Beautiful swimmers
were full of beans before they even had their wake up swim !
There’s no time for lazy wake-ups with B&B, there’s far too much fun to be had 🙂
There was still a bit of surf and swell, but most got out amongst it this morning.
Making excellent use of the rip to catapult them out to the point.
and enjoying rising above the swell
A few of us still chose the calmer, stress free start to our swim from Half Way Beach
It was a great swim, despite the surface water being slightly cooler – thanks rain 😉
Francois was pretty happy to have seen this season’s dusky ‘flathead’ for himself this morning 🙂
and Stephen was trying to lay low in his smurf suit
A few more chose to swim back to half way, where we had our own little current to play in
Whilst the body surfing clan had fun in the big waves, although they had to wait for the sets to come
Brigitte’s tired of watching from the sidelines, she’s ready to get out amongst it now 🙂
5 Bolderdashians, a few early into Shelly and 4 doublers.
Plus some great blog tart shots from the ramp to Shelly courtesy of Simon
Happy birthday to Iain McGregor today !
John O and Julie O are missing their swims, but they haven’t forgotten us – phew ! As we were the main feature at a family get together recently. See you guys soon.
Guy Leech is hoping to make history this Saturday morning, at 8am on Manly Beach with a new world record for the largest fitness circuit. The current record is 1165 and Guy is hoping to smash 1500. Let’s get behind Guy and be part of a world record.
It’s a 30 minute exercise workout on Manly Beach, with 10 stations each of 3 minutes exercise with 1 minutes rest in between. I spoke to one of Guys’ personal trainers, Patrick this morning and he said it would be fantastic to see the Bold & Beautiful swimmers come straight from the swim, sign up and join in in our cossies and caps. Let’s do it guys, it will be a tonne of fun ! Sign up here now so they know you’re coming.
If you received the B&B Update newsletter last night you will already be aware of a new global swimming website that Stephen and myself came up with and Magnus and Rob have helped to make reality – iSwimtoo !!
We are really excited about it, it’s going to help people all around the world find places to swim and people to swim where ever they are whilst keeping track of all your swims too.
But… we need your help. Please sign up, log in and help us populate the website with fantastic swims all around the world. It’s still in early stages, so we need and appreciate your feedback too so we can make the right enhancements for the users first.
iSwimtoo has already been nominated as 2012 leading new swimming offering in the world ! We are the only Australian service nominee and we need your votes. Voting is open until 31st December 2012 so PLEASE VOTE FOR US HERE at the World Open Water Swimming Association
Please feel free to share will all your friends and family and ask them to vote for us too. Invite them to join iSwimtoo while they’re at it, so they too can be part of the worlds fastest growing online swimming community.
Water Temperature 18.0
Air Temperature 19.0
Sunrise 5.48am
Sunset 7.30pm
Low Tide: 9.42am
High Tide: 3.55pm
To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
17 comments
lesley
08/11/2012 at 11:25 am
Brigitte is so cute! – that squishy face i want to squeeze it!!:-D
Those waves never look as big in the photos! they seemed so big out there!!
Little Tiger
08/11/2012 at 12:05 pm
I agree Lesley, super cute Brigitte. Can’t wait to swim with all our B&B babies.
Slowest Shaun
08/11/2012 at 12:11 pm
See Fif’s, it WAS a flathead. haha
François Pradel
08/11/2012 at 12:37 pm
Sorry Shaun, it was a genuine Dusky (that or a large Kingfish). 😉
François Pradel
08/11/2012 at 12:49 pm
Jules, I was not happy only because of the infamous dusky flathead.
I am happy because this week I have submitted my Master’s thesis and presented it. It has been weeks of hard work during which I put my social life aside.
What has kept me going is B&B and I am grateful to you for that. I have not missed a morning with you in the last 18 days (I think) and that is how I kept my sanity.
Thanks to all of you for being such a wonderful group!
lesley
08/11/2012 at 1:56 pm
Well done Francois! Does that mean we don’t have to see so much of you anymore!!? ha ha 😀
fifi
08/11/2012 at 2:26 pm
I should have known ….
Pacific Jules
08/11/2012 at 2:35 pm
That’s great Francois, congratulations on swimming 18 days straight, oh and on your thesis too of course !! 🙂
Jenny Holmes
08/11/2012 at 2:48 pm
Beautiful swim to-day and I’m really enjoying the extra freedom wearing a short wetsuit. The sea is so cool and gorgeous. Anne and I had fun catching some waves on the way back in. Now I too can swim with iSwimToo – great idea and incentive to clock up the k’s in good company. Thanks!
Rainer
08/11/2012 at 3:31 pm
Man, those smurf suits are sexy.. can’t wait to wear one tomorrow!!
Michelle Sparkes
08/11/2012 at 3:46 pm
Hey hey great surf and swim today. Jenny K you are a surf nazi! As for me, the best and biggest wave i’ve got…ever!! Spent a moment on the lip wondering (hoping/praying) that it would take me in to shore and not unceremoniously (or bone crunchingly) dump me…and lucky for me it did! It was awesome!If anyone can tell me how to spot the difference (beforehand) on whether a wave will dump or ride…I’d be extremely grateful 🙂 On another note, I want to give a big shout out to Andrew D for his gallant efforts to go to the aid of one of the 6.30’ers yesterday in th big seas getting out to the point. Love that community spirit. Well done…!
Michael [EX CI]
08/11/2012 at 4:22 pm
For anyone who has trouble spotting rips, have a look at the third Photo down in the blog today.
You can see the rip quite easily and there are 15-16 B&B swimmers right in it!!
Well done!! No wonder everyone got out so easily.
Elaine de Jager
08/11/2012 at 7:39 pm
Come on Blog and Media Tarts you must do the Guy Leech thingy
after the B&B swim! It is only 30 minutes and we can make it into The Guiness Book of Records! He is nearly up to his 1500 but needs a few more.
We must get behind our amazing Jules and Stephen and vote for Iswimtoo too! Oh and quite a few B&Bers are signing up for the Husky Triathlon next February inc myself, Jules I, Jules M, Retha, Dr John, John Hiron, Iain, Rob etc. It will be a great weekend!
john s
08/11/2012 at 8:19 pm
meow!!!
john s
08/11/2012 at 8:25 pm
Fifi
careful of the spikes on the side of the head, they are covered in a neurotoxin that can paralize in seconds!
Francois
Kingfish only live in the northern hemisphere around Thailand, was probably the seadragon (often also mistaken as the flathead)
François Pradel
08/11/2012 at 11:30 pm
Sorry Lesley, I was not aware that you “had to” see so much of me. You should see me for at least another few days 😛
fifi
09/11/2012 at 9:28 am
I will keep that in mind when next I am compelled to grip the flathead by the sides of its head….