94 Bold & Beautiful swimmers ! That’s a lot for a Monday 🙂
Enjoyed yet another beautiful morning swim, and what’s even better is… it’s forecast to be this way for the whole week !! 🙂
The sea is perfectly calm with full sun ! Not a cloud in the sky. Magnificent 🙂
Everyone had such a lovely glow about them this morning
Even Lesley managed a sensible photo !! 😉
Despite the extremely calm conditions there must have been a strong current at the point… as everyone was drifting half way across to Shelly… 😉 Please try to gather “at the point”, the first telegraph pole right on the point, before we start so it makes it a pleasant inclusive swim together for everyone, thank you 🙂
Not so inclusive that we swim over the top of people though… 😉
It was noticeably warmer across the bay and at Shelly than in close to shore which was a pleasant bonus.
With the sun bursting through the whole way.
Everyone was pretty damn happy to have been part of the swim this morning !
Sadly for us it’s Brent’s last swim today, thankfully his badge qualifying swim too, as he is returning to San Francisco after 3 months with us. We’ll miss you Brent, please stay in touch and send us regular on tour photos.
A couple of swimmers enjoyed their swim up the beach to Queensie and back and James L and Michael covered the same distance with a double lap of Shelly, both without wetsuits.
Andy was going to do the double lap too but decided to kiss a jimble instead… 🙁
11 swimmers qualified for their winter badge today, taking the new total to 45 so far ! With another 300 on target and another 157 who need to swim soon to make sure they don’t miss out… to check out which category you’re in click here
If you missed Francois’ video of the Cuttlefish, taken last weekend, you really should watch it… by clicking here
Plus another brilliant video of Gaetan’s, taken on Saturday, which includes the octopus here
We nearly have enough people booked in for our next monthly special B&B dinner at Bluewater on Monday 30th July, to have the whole restaurant to ourselves again !! 🙂 It was a fantastic night last month with superb food 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.
Happy birthday to Nannette Crawford today 🙂
Murray from Sprout Daily was down taking photos again this morning… to check them out click here
Water Temperature 15.9
Air Temperature 8.0
Sunrise 6.57am
Sunset 5.05pm
Low Tide: 11.51am
High Tide: 6.30pm
To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
6 comments
Michael [EX CI]
16/07/2012 at 10:55 am
Another beautiful video Gaetan!! A small correction? Homo Sapiens? This is a family website after all!
Brendan Maher
16/07/2012 at 11:01 am
He’s a good swimmer for a caveman -the diver that is 🙂
lesley
16/07/2012 at 11:13 am
Andy – Women pay a lot of money for lips like that! 😉
I just found some interesting research on Jimbles! They actually swim…we sort of knew that but did we know THEY HAVE EYES?! Also each stinging cell harpoons venom into prey (us)! I was fascinated because sometimes the sting looks like a line and other times it’s like a rash…so I was wondering if there is something else out there other than jimbles??!!!
ps. Those cuttlefish will be getting big heads with all that attention over the past week!!
Stephen
16/07/2012 at 12:27 pm
Great concept and cause, have a look, http://www.take3.org.au/
Jane
16/07/2012 at 5:58 pm
Great news – I sent Francois’s cuttlefish video to Mandy Reid at the Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates collection and she wants to put it on their website! Wow – and Gaetan has photos on their Fish website – aren’t we proud of our fabulous photographers!
Pacific Jules
16/07/2012 at 9:08 pm
Thats fantastic !! 🙂