49 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Beautiful conditions today. The calm, flat water is back :-). We had a free exfoliation and seaweed wrap to start and finish today with a couple of bonus stingers across the middle too. The first two photos this morning are courtesy of James Goins.  Thanks James, we love your...

76 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. There were definitely more than 76 swimmers today though, so who forgot to tick… :-(. Please check the badge tally opposite to make sure you’ve got your winter badge tick 🙂 Yesterday there were over 100 individuals who had swum since the start of winter, which was Wednesday, how...

72 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers, which is a very impressive turnout for winter and with the current conditions it’s even more impressive. There was a gorgeous sunrise for us to arrive to this morning. The surf is settling down a bit, but it’s still huge and messy. About half the swimmers went out through...

44 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. About 20 swimmers went out through the surf this morning, and for those of us who were spectating at the point on our way to half way, oh my gosh the rip was on super speed, the swimmers literally got sucked out and spat out the other side past...

22 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. It’s currently Jacuzzi Manly, to quote Gaetan from last nights comment 🙂 This morning there were the silly 6 swimmers who went out and under through the monster mush: Brendan Maher, Michel Le Vieux, Nick TB Dowson, Ricky Facer, Simon Eddy & Simon Herfort. Then there were the sensible...

42 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. First day of winter and the first day of our winter badge challenge !!! 🙂 Super rough, messy and choppy today. The waves were breaking all the way out to New Zealand and the New Zealand rock fisherman were at Manly… An interesting new fashion on display this morning...

16 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Oh my gosh, what a morning ! The sea was one super sized washing machine this morning !! Lots of white water, very messy. Lots of the swimmers had good intentions of getting out through the mush but thought better of it and walked along the walkway, enjoying watching...

22 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Sunrise, what sunrise, it was certainly a dark and wet start to the swim this morning, which you can see from the photo of Michael Christie walking back up the boat ramp after taking the water temperature this morning before we all set off. We were all in a...

70 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. There were a lot more than 70 swimmers this morning though, where were all the ticks ??? You guys won’t forget to tick from Wednesday onwards when the winter badge challenge starts will you 🙂 Lovely swim, 7 dusky whaler sharks, a yummy flathead, a beautiful pale Wobbegong and...

79 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. What a beautiful morning ! Loads and loads of fish… and the viz was great, we saw 21 healthy dusky whalers on the way over, some of which were very close to Shelly Beach, infact so close we were hoping they would move so we could stand up !...