La Orana from French Polynesia where we sailing … and  your roving blogger  checks in, hanging on a thread of internet connection. Some WOWS on tour and a few 6.30 swimmer guest appearances. Our own Captain Darling Enough holiday spam. Congrats to Michael Stacey on winning swimmer of the month and a pair of Budgies....

G’day everyone I’ve swapped with Lainey so doing the Tuesday blog. We looking for a Monday blogger to replace dear Scott who is heading back to Old Blighty. Hambe Kahle Scott we will miss you. Loved your blogs. Anyone up for a spot of blog chat please step forward your swim needs you. The water...

Siyabona Swimmers What a beautiful swim too. Just getting those swimmers who are soon departing for my home turf Kruger Park into the mood. Siyabona means ‘I see you’ and is a beautiful African greeting. The point is say hello. See someone. Like a beautiful aboriginal storyline we arrive at the bay each day to...

G’day Today (like most days) is about finding the fabulous. It started well with this scene to greet us at CTB. Air was cool, sun was fabulous and the water temperature fresh.   Don’t be fooled by this calm scene. I madly followed Georgina, Fi and  Sandy into a huge set that came from no...

Siyabona everyone Wild water and floods yet again of biblical proportions. Just a perspective. Todays ocean remain similar to the last few days see below, so if you skipped this mornings swim  like me, you didn’t miss much  … except dolphins it turns out !   The description starts with this sentence ‘ The ocean...

Siyabona everyone What a stunner it was too. Mark ‘Stickman’ Drinkwater found his inner poet and said it was ‘like swimming into an oil painting’. Thanks for the headline Stickman. Inspired choice of words. Here are some pictures so you can see what he was talking about and the temperature at 17.7C ( thank you...

Bok from Croatia Reports of the bay suggest great viz from time to time, cuttlefish and other fab fish back, water temperature above 20 C and Michelle’s baby Arnie being babysat by the lads from the Drinks Express. The latter bit being the only vaguely  alarming bit of news. We are on the last week...

Greetings from Old Blighty While temperatures  are dropping but still at at a balmy 20 C in CTB, here the river temperatures are rising to what the hardy wild swimmers here call ‘lovely’ and this is 14C. This weekend my trusty wild swimming buddy Leigh and I swam/ swooshed  the same stretch of the Thames...

Sending you all happy morning vibes from across the ocean. Old Blighty to be exact. The air is crisp and the last of the daffodils are  dotted about. If you haven’t read ‘For the love of a rose’ please find a copy. Beautiful true story of the rose ‘Peace’. In our sweet CTB  it’s all...

G’day from my home Apologies if a fat finger slip resulted in an earlier misfire of my blog in its infancy 🙂 If it rained food we might be expecting a deluge of meatballs later ( who didn’t love that book) … and it might as well, because it feels like we have been hit...