19/08/2012 – Sumptuous

114 Bold & Beautiful swimmers

delighting in a picture perfect morning, both above and below the water 🙂

You’d get more ripples in the bath than out in the bay today, making Cathy for one, very happy !

Cathy is one of our new sponsors, from Pearls de Tahiti making her own beautiful pearly jewellery.  It’s worth a look, check it out here  Enter B&B at the online checkout to take advantage of our exclusive 15% discount !!  I’ve already marked out my Christmas present to myself 🙂

Time to come up for air as we gather at the point

With 4 Port Jacksons cruising around together just off the rocks and perfect visibility the whole way across.

What a beautiful swim !

It’s a good job we get a rest at Shelly as Andy ‘made’ his son, Sean (below) swim the whole way back butterfly !

Meanwhile some of us were cruising looking for our fishie friends.  Finding these two gorgeous wobbegongs.  On both of which you can see, as Fifi correctly pointed out the other day, those little white dots on their head are not their eyes.  They mark the corner of their crescent-shaped spiracles which draw in water, allowing them to breath without moving.  Their eyes sit slightly further forward and are raised to give them better vision 🙂

Just as we got out of the water a pod of dolphins cruised past the point to join the 14 double lap swimmers (who didn’t seem them I might add), so a few of us jumped back in to try to capture some photos for you, but all we got was this jimble…

Happy birthday to Vanessa Wilton today 🙂

Congratulations to Iain who successfully completed his swim from Palm Beach to Manly yesterday with the support of Nicole, Gaetan, James, Cae, Miles, Rob and co…  and a proud welcoming committee to great them all at the finish 🙂 Gaetan has kindly put together an album of photos taken throughout the swim which you can view here

Our next monthly special B&B dinner at Bluewater is on Monday 27th August.  If we have enough people booked in we’ll have the whole restaurant to ourselves again 🙂  It’s a fantastic night with superb food and great company so don’t miss out… book in now by clicking here 

Dinner is $20 each including shared entrees, a selection of mains to choose (incl vegetarian option), corkage (for byo wine only) plus a little thank you from each of us to the staff !  All beers (including 4 pines) and desserts only $5.

Water Temperature 16.3
Air Temperature 9.0
Sunrise 6.29am
Sunset 5.28pm
High Tide: 9.12am
Low Tide: 3.05pm

To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here

It’s gonna be stunning swimming conditions again tomorrow, so look forward to seeing you then 🙂