73 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 22 people enjoyed an overcast Bolderdash with a couple of unpleasant surprise blue bottles at North Steyne and a bit of swell to keep it interesting off Queensie headland. Conditions are improving nicely, the regular Shelly swim was beautifully calm with the water clearing 🙂 Good news is it...

53 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. The southerly certainly came and did it’s thing over night; the sea has calmed right down, for us at least in our beautiful proctected corner, but blimey did it have to bring all that antarctic water with it !?  It was brain freeze temperatures this morning.  But, don’t worry…...

53 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 5 hardy souls, Gaetan Guilhon, Gavin Skinstad, James Goins, Miles Tollan and Roberto Suares all endured a roller coaster Bolderdash whilst Annette Willows and Maureen Rath braved an early half way swim in the name of team work… as a blue bottle check for the rest of us 😉...

94 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. There was some early activity this morning with a few people enjoying an early Bolderdash and Charlie Camphin, Dave Adams and Tim Holloway kindly checking the waters for us with an early double lap to Shelly and back. The regular swim was full of adventure; starting with a complimentary...

84 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 20 people, including 6 first timers enjoyed a lovely Bolderdash to Queenscliff and back this morning at 5.50am with a beautiful Eastern Fiddler Ray watching from below. 100 different individuals have swum Bolderdash and that’s in only four weeks – wow ! The Shelly swim was nice; calm and...

77 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 5 swimmers headed off early; Gaetan and James swum up to Queensie and back and Collie, Ben and Brendan up to Freshie, where they picked up a new guy Peter Collins before they swam back in time to join the rest of us at 7.   Ben, however, took...

27 Bold & Beautiful swimmers turned up at least… John Bond picked the title of this morning’s blog as soon as he arrived.  What a wild and wolly morning.  It’s rough, rugged and interspersed with flotillas of overgrown blue bottles.   All in all not a very pleasant morning for a swim ! Whilst a...

51 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 11 people enjoyed an early rolling Bolderdash with the odd jimble and a little rain. If your intention was to stay dry I hope you didn’t leave home as to quote Cathie Coleman, “it was wetter out than in” at swimming this morning… There was a bit of swell...

36 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 5 people endured an early stingerdash, with most of them escaping at North Steyne on the way back after their encounters with bluies, but they weren’t totally deterred as they jumped back in again for a bluie free swim with the rest of us to Shelly and back. It’s...

41 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 10 people enjoyed a lovely flat Bolderdash, led by James Goins this morning, thanks James !  With nearly nil swell they manageed to get very close to Queensie headland.  Congratulations to Chihiro and Miles on their first ever Bolderdash 🙂 It’s amazing what a little bit of inclement weather...