Siyabona and top of the morning to you all I’m reading of wet windy chilly Sydney. Meanwhile  in Old Blighty I’ve managed to convince the husband (Jonny/Manus) to join me try open water swimming. I applied to join the open water swimming group on FB called LOST ( Lincolnshire Open Water Tribe). The entry questions...

Howzit from Old Blighty Yes that’s right your dedicated blogger is in the UK. Caveat : It’s a work trip The Covid thing … Thank you for following public health advice including physical distancing and outdoor exercising limits (currently 2 people at a time, within your LGA or within 10kms of your home) at all...

Molweni Swimmers ( Hello in Xhosa) A fashionable temperature of 17C today and air temp around 12C. Thank you to Pauline for the daily stats. After the heady success of the catwalk shoot mark 1 I felt we should continue with virtual catwalk mark2 in the time of lockdown. How better to cheer us up...

Dumela ( hello in SeSotho) Winter swimming brings out the fashionista in us all. Or perhaps it buries it. I asked the crew to show their winter apparel on our SLC catwalk. Rocking it on the SLC catwalk Angie Ali and Sadie     Birthday girl and legendary fast fish Jenny surrounded  by models Sean,...

Siyabona swimmers A few technical difficulties means management notice will be at start of blog. Apologies keep going for the pics. Di x   B&B monthly dinner – 8th June 2021The next B&B monthly dinner for the year will be held on Tuesday 8th June at 6.30 pmat Bluewater Restaurant. To celebrate World Oceans Day, this month’s...

Siyabona CTB the gift that keeps on giving. Today was no exception – a beautiful moody blues view greeted us … what’s not to like. And a great place to find joy first thing in the morning.   One of our golden legends Errol posed for me. He recovered from a stroke and still finds...

Howzit  Easter Monday. (Howzit =common Saffer greeting meaning hello how are you all rolled into one) The water looked enticing beautiful and calm …inside the ocean though was a cauldron of activity, bubbling shoals of yakkas darting about, droves of  bitey itchy no-see-ums  (sealice) some large brown jelly fish and the odd stinger… and dang...

Ah today … the tide seemed to have finally turned. The water was a balmy 22.5C with some promising clarity and great sightings to enhance the swim. In the words of Jack Johnston in his song Only the Ocean After all this time after all these seasonsAfter your one decision to go to the water...

After a fascinating and thought provoking BnB dinner last night where Simon Phin (aka Trooper) spoke on why we take risks and how we manage them from oil rigs to the swim,  I asked swimmers today how they rated themselves as risk takers. Fingerbone and the Driver (James and Chris to others) here. Despite the...

17th February dawns with an interesting rip, a few sets at the point, calm in the bay and a few of our favourite things … This weeks favourite sea life sightings included 1 turtle, 2 grey nurses, 3 fiddler rays, 4 wobbies  and a party of yakkas in a seaweed tree. I asked the Humans...