50 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
This photo pretty much sums up this morning for you…
With monster waves breaking way out past the point. A few experienced surf swimmers went out from the beach but even some of them very sensibly changed their mind part way and turned back.
Spot the two pairs on feet in the last photo…
Sprout Daily also published a fantastic photo of one of ‘us’ on approach to a massive wall of water… check it out here
A stunning rainbow to send us off on our pleasant stroll around to Half Way beach.
Where we were also joined by beautiful baby Lilou 🙂
It seems it’s not only humans that multiple around here…
There were certainly lots of laughs this morning in between strokes with everyone getting washed around all over the place and Jenny H accurately summing up this morning’s swim with one word – “Spumy” !
Spot Hugh in the wave on the way back in at Half Way Beach…
Today’s a pretty significant morning in the lives of Brad and Lucy as Lucy overtakes Brad on the B&B Pacific Challenge !! 😉
Don’t forget to put next Thursday morning, 21st June, in your diary as a must do 7am B&B swim as it is the Winter Solstice !! To mark the occasion Matt has designed you your very own, one off, B&B Winter Solstice Swimmer bumper sticker… not one to be missed.
Jacqui Devlin is running a fashion fundraiser for Manly Hospital’s Cardiac Rehab Centre at Hotel Steyne on Saturday 7th July from 1-4pm.
Men’s fashion by Surf Kinetic, Ladies by Lotus Blue, Teens by Quicksilver and 0-10 by Manly Beach Babes. Tickets are $50 per adult, including food & drink and are available from Jacqui on 0419 496 386 or email: jacquidevlin@bigpond.com 17 years and under are complimentary.
Izzy has started the MMM’s; Manly Movie Mob, and as the name indicates they will be watching a movie together, preferably at Manly, the first Tuesday of each month. If you are keen to join in please email Izzy directly at: isobel@executivevoice.com.au with “Cinema” as the subject and she will be add you to the email list.
Water Temperature 18.0
Air Temperature 12.0
Sunrise 6.58am
Sunset 4.53pm
Low Tide: 10.12am
High Tide: 4.49pm
To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
10 comments
Lesley
14/06/2012 at 12:00 pm
There’s not many people I would let take a back end shot of me in a cozzie and socks!! hee hee. I’m turning up at 7.10 tomorrow – I was freezing waiting FOR YOU ALL at half way – we got in the water at 7.15!!! Thank god I went for a jog with E-lane before hand! ;-D
But AS ALWAYS it was a great swimming with you all xx
Lucy
14/06/2012 at 12:53 pm
This is such a proud day for me Jules. Thank you for including it in the blog!!
It feels so good to be on 202km doesn’t it, B-rad? Oh shame, you wouldn’t know yet…hehe!!
xx
izzy
14/06/2012 at 1:54 pm
thanks darling for mentioning the triple M’s – an off shoot of the B&B’s! BBMMM’s (or brooommmmss) maybe in winter we should be the BBRRRRR’s
xx izz
fifi
14/06/2012 at 2:19 pm
I win the most pointy head prize.
And so happy to find my lost friend today!
brad edwards
14/06/2012 at 2:27 pm
Haha its ok!! Ill be swimming this weekend while you’re away with the gals 🙂
Jenny Holmes
14/06/2012 at 6:42 pm
Thanks Julie for quoting my “spumy”
Here are a few words from Walt Whitman – these words open “A Sea Symphony” by Ralph Vaughan Williams – they were pretty fitting for to-day as well.
Behold! the sea itself,
And on its limitless, heaving breast…
the bobbing pink caps of the Bold & Beautiful.. yaaay!
Well – sort of anyway. Bruce loved this mighty choral work and had sung in it himself years ago.
Elaine de Jager
14/06/2012 at 8:22 pm
Thank you Simon, Jules, Michael etc for discouraging Michelle and I to swim out through the surf today. We are bold but may have ended up Bold and Dead looking at conditions afterwards!
What a beautiful sky and rainbow we saw this morning. There always seems to be some sort of magic around these swims. That photo proves that Manly really is the end of the rainbow too! (Glad I got out of Birmingham!)
I can’t believe I am so excited about getting my Winter badge and Winter without Wetsuit badge. (It really wasn’t that cold this morning anyway.) See some of you tomorrow and hurry up and come back Little Sarah Abbott, John Bond, Nicki Brake, Peta Bird, Madlen etc!!
Little Sarah Abbott
14/06/2012 at 9:23 pm
😉 we’ll be back for Bruce’s special swim….
Amazing, you were in a wet-suit in April and now in June you’ve shed it! Let’s see how you go in August:-)) Also glad you left B’ham and everyone else ended up in Manly too.
Swim safe…..
xxxxxx
fifi
15/06/2012 at 10:17 am
well you certainly were bold and un-dead today, Elaine! I got such a surprise to see your little smiling face pop out of the waves out the back. Well done.
Its just been so beautiful these last few mornings. 🙂
Elaine de Jager
15/06/2012 at 9:37 pm
Nice to hear from you Little Sarah! Yes I’m going Bold Undead and Without Wetsuit now until end of Winter!