John & Jill had a film crew to shoot a scene for the Orthopedic Surgeons Conference.       Happy birthday Lisa (right).   An injured Sterling placed a call to his substitute swimmer. Mel scored: the best park, a place on the 5:40am swim team (including  Roger & Murray), afters coffee and a chat...

Shaun’s charge: one newbie -> 1 cap -> $20   Ramp charge $2 with security by Lesbubbles. BTW Happy birthday Jim.   Resulted in a drastic drop in numbers.   Hmmm..   It’s still pretty cold both in and out of the water, especially for my 5:36am swimming buddies. Thanks for the Pre-dawn shots Roger....

My forecast app at 5:35 said “8.3deg feels like 0.8deg C!” So sisters Clair and Ali were sheltering inside the club before their run to the shore and their swim to Shelly.     Shelly at 5:51am but no Bioluminescence.   6.02am   6.04am Pirate’s post swim stretch.     John checked the temp @6.22am.  ...

Birthday Annie.     Booties.   Families. Sun.     They said, “call us the sexy ones!” Pirate stretch.     Lucy, Julia & ?     One of my favourite Greg shots ( Sept 2016).     Have a great week ahead.   Simon (My tracker 1.4kms in 26mins from 5:39am)      ...

Welome back Clair.     Happy birthday Nicky.     Bon circumnavigation  Matt.     Kathryn’s canine blanket.     Geoff’ and fans with  20th swim in 7 weeks cake.     A continuous stream of groups today. I swam with 9 the 5:37’s We met the 6amers on our return from Shelly and then...

Jim said, “I’m freezing, Help! I need somebody, not just anybody.”   Click  here: Please help me   Birthday boy Richard with a little help from his friends.   Cafe Kane knows them as “Double Shot Flat Whites” AKA racing dads, Tod & Scotty.     Congratulations Scotty who gold podiumed  today after a 5 week...

Birthday snapshot.     Geoff, Hawaiian Iron Man King with some of his adoring triathalon queens.     Queen Lee, in pink , made the 3,000kms honours list.     Sofia received her 500kms badge under a royal human archway.         Queen Anne, of the BnB upper management. (btw please look out...

6:45am sunrise.     I ventured out with these guys at 5:41am. We followed the rocks and stayed together  just in case the Noah’s ark was still around.     It was a rocky but warm swim.     Boys from the Drinkless express.     ”The Medibank swimmer of the month is Edwina Harrison....

Zoom Zoom 6:20am.             6:30am.       7:02am.   Guess who?   Zoom from Shelley.   Stats: water temp: a cold 20.1, swimmers 200+, newbies a few. Have a great week ahead Simon   ========================================= The host of the hit ABC series War On Waste,Craig Reucassel, is back filming the...

Richard turned 500 today!     After winning in 1912 the A-team needed a shower. (stand on you head to see this shot)       An extremely large crowd today.     Shaun & Inge were kept busy past 7:03  with 48 newbies.     Down the ramp.     7:06 crew.    ...