Over 73 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. What a perfect start to 2012.  I can’t think of anything better than a swim in our amazing aquatic marine reserve with a whole bunch of happy friends. If this morning is anything to go by it’s going to be a terrific year: Blue skies, clear, beautifully warm water...

Over 156 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Brendan and Gaetan enjoyed an early Bolderdash and 17 swimmers, kindly led by David Adams, continued on for the 6km Summer Badge Swim up to Freshie and back with plenty of swell but no breaking bommie so all in all a good fun swim which saw Brendan finish the...

Over 171 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 20 people enjoyed a beautiful Bolderdash this morning, kindly ‘led’ by Robin, thank you. One of whom was Neil Cowin who has arrived at South West Rocks !!!  The first swimmers to complete the first leg in our Pacific Challenge. Congratulations Neil, you have swum nearly 400kms and only...

125 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Welcome to our 20 new swimmers this morning too !  I think that’s a record.  20 new people in one day… love it 🙂 It’s not surprising either, as the water is beautiful at the moment, with a lovely little wave to start and bring us home. The water is...

112 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 12 and a half people, including Claire’s baby bump, enjoyed a bumpy Bolderdash 😉 The surf has calmed down.   There are still plenty of waves around, but much nicer conditions for swimming today than for the last couple of days, at least in the Bay as the southerly has...

72 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Gaetan swam an early Bolderdash from half way beach to the bommie and back, solo, I think !!? The rest of us followed his lead and swam to Shelly and back from half way also. A fun swirly swim it was too, with a happy birthday song to ‘us’ at...

95 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 7 people tackled the early Bolderdash meanwhile Timberlie was taking beautiful sunrise photos for us.  They’re stunning Tim, thank you. The waves were pounding in, so for the 7am swim the majority of swimmers took the sensible option and walked around to half way beach for a fun swim to...

126 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. What a perfect way to start Christmas Day – a beautiful swim with fantastic friends ! Not to mention the bonus 2 Christmas songs; Jingle Bells and Rudolph at Shelly Beach played on guitar by Peter Wood before our swim back to Manly.   A magic morning, thank you !!...

194 Bold & Beautiful swimmers !! The water was beautiful, with blue skies, sun and finally warm water, no wonder we broke all of our records this morning !! 🙂 What a bumper swimming day it was today… starting with a fantastic record number of swimmers swimming to Shelly and back with a mystery bottom...

132 Bold & Beautiful swimmers !! It must be Christmas holidays as we’re enjoying the company of some of our swimmers who we haven’t seen for a while.  It’s great to have you all back in the water with us !!  The more the merrier for sure 🙂 28 people enjoyed a lovely Bolderdash including...