Over 20 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. Swimming in the rain what a glorious feeling we’re happy again… Nice swim, lovely and clear. Lots of rays and a nice little wave. Water Temperature 18.9 degrees. Sunrise 6.02am. Sunset 7.16pm. High Tide: 10.11am. Low Tide: 4.42pm.

Over 26 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. Overcast and drizzly but it seemed to make the whales friskie there was lots of breaching and tail slapping out at the Bower this morning – beautiful ! Check out the aftermath of Izzy’s birthday yesterday… Water Temperature 19.2 degrees. Sunrise 6.04am. Sunset 7.16pm. Low Tide: 9.34am. High Tide:...

Over 38 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. The wind had stopped so it was a lovely swim, a bit murky and there was some spring bloom near the bower and bluey’s on the beach but none in the water. A bucket was found about half way and Michel nearly died of exhaustion swimming back with it...

Over 33 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. We saw two whales breach about 200 meters off shore at we entered the water again, so we bolted to the Bower again. The water was just beautiful: warm, clear with some spring bloom still on the surface but no whales, that’s until we got back to land when...

Over 46 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. Stunning morning with the water both warming and clearing, well that was until we got to Shelly were there was a spring bloom of red phytoplankton such as diatoms or dinoflagellates which occurs in spring in temperate and sub-polar bodies of water !! There was great marine life out...

Over 15 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. A drizzly start but as we entered the water and then again as we congregated at the point Mr Whale waved to us from a couple of hundred meters off shore, so we swam to the Bower to visit him 🙂 Despite singing to him underwater he decided it...

Over 33 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. Paradise is back – the water’s flat and clearing so we have viz again. There were a large pod of dolphins playing in shore between all the ski paddlers yesterday, again 1 hour late – PLEASE tell the marine life it’s daylight savings, I’m sure they were looking for...

32 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. The raging westerly yesterday certainly flattened the seas and with the sun shunning it looked just beautiful and then you put your feet in – ouch – the westerlies blow the surface water out so the cool water from the deep rises – brrrrrrrrrr Water Temperature 16.6 degrees. Sunrise 6.12am....

28 Bold & Beautiful Swimmers. Frighteningly freezing, wow that westerly wind made it truly icy at Shelly. The swim back was like swimming in a wind tunnel, in fact the wind was so cold you wanted to swim breaststroke so you didn’t have to take your arms out of the water! Check out the photo...