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...

The daily return ocean swim between Manly and Shelly beaches has the potential for danger. “I don’t want to hear how beautiful it is. We need to hear more about the dangers lurking in the deep so we don’t attract any more newbies” reported a B&B regular Attracta. So today’s blog comes in the interests...