Stats: Water Temp: 21.4 C Total number of swimmers: 146 – Its the end of the holidays so numbers are down, but the 6.30am Drinks express numbers are up (swim early to beat the traffic)  Newbies: 11 Tomorrow’s Tides – Hi : 7.35 am 1.9 m (more water around the point for tomorrows “racers”) Lo:...

Today is the anniversary of the landing of the first white man at Manly CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP R.N 1st GOVERNOR OF NSW 21st January 1788. here’s Arthur and here is his monument in Manly Cove, located close to the ferry How lucky are we to be living in a place that was named 5 days before the...

Exactly one year ago today we were recovering from the goodbye party for Jules and Michael so I thought a little nostalgia was in order. 14 January 2013 We had a cracking evening yesterday at Jonny & Di’s beautiful home in Clontarf to say goodbye to Jules & Michael. We had so much fun together...

Start humming this song from the Sgt. Peppers album Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, Towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,...

We’ll start with the stats!! Swimmers: 147  Newbies: 3 Sunset Today: 8.04pm Sunrise Tomorrow: 5.39am Moon: Today is a Full Moon Tomorrows Tides: Low – 2:03am – 0.49 m High – 8:34am – 1.75 m (so the water will be quite deep for tomorrow’s swim) Water Temp:22.3 degrees ============================================================== As you can see it is a FULL MOON...

“It never rains on Laineys sunny Thursday mornings, but girl don’t they warn ya?, it pours, man, yes it pours” (Mamas & the Papas) I could barely see South Head as I hopped on my bike at 6.14am this morning   I had to use the many Manly signs to find my way up the The...

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!! There were numerous sightings of a Dolphin this morning from Midge and Robin after 6am and the whole drinks express. When we got to Shelly with the 7am mob there was only one thing being said, “Did you see the dolphin?” So Sophie, Nick & I jumped the gun and headed for the Bower...

Over 99 swimmers eventually came down to swim this morning. This included approx 6 swimmers who completed the 3km Bolderdash return swim to Queenscliff. If you have never “done a Bolderdash ” this  picture from Richard shows the handy work of our resident B&B artist who recently perfomed open heart surgey on the Queens cliff with a...

Zoot Fusion Wetsuit style S8MWS52 (2009-2013) Zoot lasted five seasons of swimming with B&B serving as a swimming turbocharger for its owner through more than 800 kms of open water swims. Alas Zoot suffered a massive haemorrhage on the way to Shelly last Thursday. The rip was fatal. . Zoot had lived an active life...