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...

G’day from Queensland We are on vac on Heron island celebrating Nats birthday. It’s a slice of heaven as many of you will know.   So many turtles abound. Tis the season. Nests bursting open with turtle bubs (hatchlings)  busting for the ocean trying to avoid marauding gulls shrieking  ‘mine mine mine’ and lurking reef...

Siyabona That was yesterday. Big water. Today so much calmer even manageable for the flat water swimmers (me and Suzie) and really beautiful in with a few raindrops to make it extra wonderful. Temp 21.7 C  and Amanda and I saw a turtle at half way. Yay and yay again. The mood board today  ...

Siyabona ( I see you ) Yesterday I blogged my Wednesday blog … except it was Tuesday #yesterdaysgirl and thankfully no one noticed / read/ cared. Meh So here I am blogging my definitely last blog of the year. It is also definitely Wednesday. Haibo!  (iZulu for ‘goodness me’) The temperature was 22.7 C –...

Wednesday 21st, water temp 23.2 C thank you Guy. Lovely swim. Some rain. Some sea lice / no-see-ums (as the folk of South Carolina islands call them) and a bit cloudy. Mood board pictures Guy is seen here Glamourised by Ab Fab Izzy and Sarah. The bloke on the wall wears  the ‘here we go...

Goeie More  ( good morning in Afrikaans) and Gday Last night was a joyous BNB Xmas party and this morning a joyous BNB swim. Oh what fun it is. In chronological order … the Xmas party with an emphasis on our unique BnB fashion. Fabulous efforts from all our Xmas fashionista’s. There was a a...

Howzit and Sawabona Reports from CTB are that the water temperature is 18.3C this fine Wednesday and  the water calm and beautiful. Find your salt joy and get in there if you can. During lockdown and Covid restrictions it’s been tough for so many of us being away from friends family or colleagues. We  have...