Don’t mess with the Zohan! Trooper rants ‘no dilly dallying around here’ and pushes us all to our limits on another day on the sand and in the surf.   A standard dragon boat typically consists of 22 team members: 20 paddlers, 1 drummer and 1 steerer. Like a well oiled team our FFF all...

  5.55am the hour of the Baker. First light 5.45am, sunrise 6.15am. So in the hollow twilight of dawn we push out into an empty bay. Despite overnight rain it’s crystal clear. And the jellies aren’t seen till well past sunrise. Not for lack of light, just lack of jellies. Snoopy bounds out of the...

A chill is in the air The water temp decreasing Has summer already said goodbye?   Drinks Express never fail to rise, no matter the conditions. Creatures of habit (and a good one at that)   Flashing lights of red and blue, Sarah from Sales and Jon already in the water, heading north.    ...

      Did you know that wearing green on St Patricks Day makes you invisible to the iritating pinching leprechauns. I swam out in the dark in green sluggos hoping it worked on Jellyfish as well. Not a jelly did I see! Didn’t stop me running smack bang into Passage Rock, I’m sure it...

  What a man, what a mightly fine man!       Canadian Matt blames his Garmin for a 1.22/100m split yesterday. Snoopy has pulled out the fins and word on the street he pushed Jon all the way today on the Express train.     My favourite day of the week. Friday. Blocky and...

      Some fear mongering on FB the past week i’ve been away. I was expecting to see a wall of jellys, impenetrable in the middle of the bay, whipping stingers, blue bottles and packs of stalking bull sharks. The news stories in the Perth papers also talked of a mighty Iron Man rescued...

Something strange was occurring in the Drinks Express early on Friday morning. The new design budgies were causing some distress, with the Guv complaining of an unusual rash, stories of a missing testicle, and an unnamed sandgroper who has probably eaten a bit much cake over Christmas. The Guv shared a theory that the issue...

    One of the joys of the FFF (Freshwater Fast Fives) is the rant. The ranters topics range from solar eclipses, to lessons in life from our fearless Surf Life savers, to distant boomer memories of feel good songs, and my favourite the weekly horse racing tipster’s take on the weekend action.   How...

  Marilyn Monroe famously liked to bathe in a champagne bubble bath. Today we set out at 6.30am in clear, warm, frothy water that Marilyn would have loved. By 7.30 coming back in, the heavens had opened, Guy’s temperature tower was frothing like an exploding volcano, and the rip was more of a dirty martini....

The morning wakes up to a southerly wind, a light rain, a swell with some easterly in it. And all of a sudden it’s flat… and viz is rapidly improving.   Drinksy always says it takes 4 days of a southerly blow to return the bay to normal. We are well on the way.  ...