It’s Easter Monday aka “Bright Monday”, which is customarily a day for visiting family and friends and “day drinking”. For the The Bold & Beautiful EVERY day is Bright Monday because most swimmers spend more time drinking than swimming. In Manly the choice for cafe chatter is unlimited, but here are some of my apres swim favourites… Havana….....

Stats: 54 swimmers, 2 newbies, 21 degrees C (approx 72 degrees F) ===================================================================================================================================== “Where’s Drinky when I need him to babysit me?”, said Baby Maguire   ‘”Will I do?”, said the Jimmy ‘the Drinks’ back-up   Here is the 6.30 Drinks express with camera shy Billy “Is the swim on today?”, said newbie Laurie who arrived...

Special Announcement: HELP NEEDED:   In order to make sure Bold and Beautiful remains the FREE, wonderful, inclusive activity that it currently is for everyone, everyday, we need to have one or two fundraising events each year.    On Tuesday 6th May we will be having our main fundraising event for this year, which will...

Simon was all set to do today’s blog but was called away unexpectedly…. All I can say is I hope everything is ok ?! So continuing from Simon 🙂 ……….. Greetings from Manly, NSW, Australia! Coordinates: Manly – 33° 47′ 50″ South and 151° 17′ 19″ EAST and Shelly – 33° 48′ 2″ South and 151° 17′...

Special message Dear Amy I’ve come all the way from Maroubra to find us a new home in Manly love Dave   Stats: Water Temp: 20.3 C Total number of swimmers: 136 + 3 bolderdashers Newbies: a few Tomorrow’s Tides – Lo : 7.24 am 0.5 m (dead low tide for the swim, slightly less distance) Hi: 1.28 pm...

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,...