Over 45 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers It was one of those perfect mornings! Despite it being colder everyone turned up with happy faces! Happy birthday to John Abbott (below) with his lovely wife Sarah.   And Happy Birthday to Nick!   Paige took control of a lot of the photography this morninga and did a...

Over 400 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers and still counting….including over 50 new people!   Beautiful early morning shot..courtesy of Gaetan   An incredible turn out today for the Anzac swim! This blog will be a slightly bigger one, spread out over a 4 parts…Arrival / Anzac Ceremony / The Return /The Jimbles and other matters!...

Over 60 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers Back to relatively normal today….slightly calmer seas….   Below – Gaetan and Iain back from an early swim….Paige welcoming a new swimmer!…and just a typical lovely view from the surf club         Everyone catching up on the latest at B&B especially after yesterdays excitement, John B...

Over 42 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers + 1 shark! Some of the earlier swimmers returning….   Some personal bests were no doubt swum today due to the fact that there was an early spotting off the Point of a shark! Various reports were circulating..(great whites, tigers etc), but it appears to be confirmed by some...

Over 159 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers Iain and Mark swam earlier to Freshie Here’s proof from Gaetan – although to be honest that could be anyone in there! 😉 Though wondering who took the photo? Did you have a really big lens Gaetan? Or were you there also? The Pap’s were out to photograph us...

Over 109 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers Not sure if anyone did any earlies or doubles! Foggen hell what a swim! Yes foggy when we arrived but cleared up once swim got on its way.  The life guards put up the strong current sign which we all ignored….just kidding, no of course we didn’t…because a lot...

Over 51 Bold & Beautiful swimmers The waves were bigger but the sun was out! Roberto and Miles headed off to goodness knows where this morning at 6am – Check out what they swam through! (Courtesy of Gaeten). Video https://vimeo.com/40686538         The rest of us sensible lot headed off to half-way again, but...

Over 20 Bold & Beautiful swimmers   In theory the conditions weren’t great for swimming but as always we all went in with smiles on our faces and came out with even bigger smiles and lots of laughing!  The beach was closed at Manly so respectfully we all walked around to half-way and had lots of...

Over 36 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. We certainly have it all at Manly.  Today it was wet, wild and a bundle of fun… 😉 6 swimmers went out from Manly, the rest of us went for our morning biathlon 😉         It must have been fun… check out all the smiles amongst...

Over 90 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Another gorgeous swim in calm, flat water at least down at the Southern end of the beach 🙂     A touch of equipment failure this morning… nothing to do with all the frivolities of your recent wedding and honeymoon I’m sure Emily 😉 Welcome back to Philip who...