Over 105 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
First day of winter swimming today and it certainly got the thumbs up !!
In fact it was bloody lovely 🙂 With a fantastic turnout of swimmers all keen to get their first qualifying winter swim under their cossies.
Lots of swimmers are still enjoying a couple of extra laps with 7 swimming the pre-dawn lap at 6.30 and 3 continuing on afterwards.
The water temperature kindly rose another 0.1 of a degree today too, every little bit helps !
Don’t forget every 7am swim to Shelly and back, between now and 31st August, counts towards your 2012 ‘Cold & Beautiful’ winter badge as long as you remember to tick.
For those of you that haven’t swum through winter before it’s seriously the best time of year, with usually fantastic water clarity, no blue bottles and bonus visits from dolphins and if we’re very lucky Mr Whale 🙂
As you know it was sadly Liz’s last swim with us today as she heads back to Ireland tomorrow 🙁 But it wasn’t all sad as with a little help from her friends she did perform Riverdance for us at Shelly Beach this morning… !! If you missed it all is not lost, you can watch a clip of it here 🙂
Then for the down hill swim back to Manly for those hot water bottles and a nice hot cuppa coffee.
From time to time some of our swimmers have needed a plumber and we haven’t had one with in B&B… But, guess what we discovered this morning, our very own B&B plumber, Ted de Jager 🙂
Plus a bonus photo courtesy of James, taken early this morning of Jenny and Vicki pounding up and down the sand before the swim !!
Water Temperature 19.2
Air Temperature 12.0
Sunrise 6.52am
Sunset 4.54pm
Low Tide: 10.58am
High Tide: 5.30pm
21 comments
Gaetan
01/06/2012 at 11:05 am
very cool photos!
105 swimmers on a winter week day, amazing! 🙂
Jane
01/06/2012 at 12:18 pm
Yesterday’s Kimberley video was superb, guys. What are the beautiful white rocks on the canyon floor? Quartz?
Big Rick
01/06/2012 at 12:28 pm
Big Rick is swimming up to Queensie tomorrow leaving at 630 sharp if any of you ladies are interested…
Lesley
01/06/2012 at 1:55 pm
good to see some of the ‘old’ gang in the water this morning! ie, people who used to come a lot but haven’t been able to make it! 105 people is great for winter….
BYE LIZ!!
iain
01/06/2012 at 3:44 pm
Anyone want to spend 8 hours in a boat tomorrow?
Please call/text Iain on 0400481259
Roberto
01/06/2012 at 3:58 pm
i can do land support all day – but not boat
iain
01/06/2012 at 4:11 pm
Thanks Roberto
John
01/06/2012 at 4:12 pm
Still trying to get rid of a bad cold but hope to be down soon. Hope everyone enjoyed their first winter swim. Safe travels to Liz on your return to Ireland, did I miss the Irish jig? If you read this Midge,have a great holiday.Good luck to all the guys in their Palm Beach to Manly swim.
Irish Liz
01/06/2012 at 4:16 pm
What an amazing send off! Thank you all, I will miss B&B so much 😉 but I will be back for sure….I had an incredible experience this afternoon, I was surfing off bower and a whale breached about 100m away from me, and then again and again before it continued up the coast – Breath-taking stuff! what a fantastic going away pressie Manly! 😉
Lesley
01/06/2012 at 4:19 pm
better than a turtle Liz??? 😉
Elaine de Jager
01/06/2012 at 4:28 pm
What another fun morning and amazing swim with such lovely people. What a fantastic last memory to have of Manly Liz! Look forward to seeing you in August. Good luck brave guys tomorrow. Thanks for mentioning Ted the Flying Dutchman plumber Jules. Sure he will give B&Bers a good deal!
P.S. If any French people are leaving can we do a ‘can Can’ on Shelly Beach?
Irish Liz
01/06/2012 at 4:33 pm
i suppose it’ll do for now!!…that turtle better show up for me in august! 😉
Irish Liz
01/06/2012 at 4:34 pm
That video is so funny!…u do a pretty good flipper dance elaine 😉 see u in august
Stephen
01/06/2012 at 5:52 pm
Pink Argyle Diamonds!
Michael [EX CI]
01/06/2012 at 6:09 pm
its metamorphosed sandstone [quartzite]
Little Tiger
01/06/2012 at 6:40 pm
Goodluck to the Palm Beach – Manly swimmers. I’ll be watching from the headlands.
Loved the Irish jig. Farewell Liz
Alyson
01/06/2012 at 7:26 pm
Good Luck Liz! Awesome video of an award winning dance… a little scared of what the can can might end up like though 😉
Alyson
01/06/2012 at 7:28 pm
I Just realised today’s blog didn’t make the Facebook page – had to google it??
Pacific Jules
01/06/2012 at 7:51 pm
Thats weird, I just checked Facebook and its there.
Jane
03/06/2012 at 4:12 pm
And you never brought any back for me?
Jane
03/06/2012 at 4:13 pm
Thankyou Michael – I knew there was someone I could trust…….