A cozy 52 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers Lovely and flat and still and looking so welcoming!   Early lappers just arriving back…   Not 1 BUT 2 super-cute babies today – Lilou and  Brigitte!! I wonder what they were thinking? 😀 The anticipated “dread” walk into the cold water!! But today was so lovely and...

95 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers, mostly dad’s! Picture below is deceiving – it was ffffreeezing!! Sea temp was 14.5!! Michael Christie you missed it!!  Just kidding it was 15.8… (air temp a cooool 8 degrees) Conditions were lovely – and set to continue for a few days – by Thurs it should be flat seas...

96 Bold & Beautiful swimmers ~8 swimmers enjoyed an early dawn swim, some up to Queensie and some into Shelly, all back in time to form a human archway for Collie to run through as he took he dive towards France.  Collie is heading off on Wednesday to Dover, to climatise for a couple of...

101 Bold & Beautiful swimmers celebrate the last day of 2012 winter swimming – yippee !! As predicted the sea was calm, peaceful and very inviting. With people excited to be celebrating the last day of winter But perceptions can be deceiving How cold was it !?   Blooming cold !!  15.2 degrees kind of...

77 Bold & Beautiful swimmers Michael battled the white water rapids to take the water temperature for us this morning 😉 It’s the last day of winter tomorrow – YEH !!! and the surf and swell is going to be significantly less than today 🙂   Brother and Sister, Terry and Jenny, along with Bev...

100 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers!!! That’s 100 people swimming – can you believe it!! I am sure our numbers have doubled since last year??  100 people swimming was a big day in the Summer on a WEEKEND!   186 have now qualified for their Winter Badge! Winter Badge Ceremony will be held at Whitewater with...

101 Bold & Beautiful swimmers were tickled pink to find the water has warmed up and there were no stingy things out there with us for this morning’s magical swim. Yeh, a perfect morning for Julia to make her come back post baby Lucas 🙂       Luitz is pretty happy to be back...

87 Bold & Beautiful swimmers brace themselves for a brisk swim     with a few different variations of arm raises going on.       It’s the last week of winter, yeh !!!  The water temp kindly testing those swimmers who left their run for the winter badge to the last few days, making...

119 Bold & Beautiful swimmers What glorious days !!! It’s no wonder we are seeing some of our swimmers who we haven’t seen for a while… Neil’s been sharing his time between Whale Beach and Hawaii, but this morning he was happy to be back with us 🙂 Ben, Josh and Amy have also been...

138 Bold & Beautiful swimmers get ready for a beautiful swim, making sure everything is sitting just right, especially those ears under the caps 😉 What a spectacular morning; clear blue skies, brilliant sun and magnificent calm, clear water 🙂 Mark was rising above us all… standing on a rock so other swimmers didn’t hit...