Birthdays, badges et al

All those winds overnight made me wonder how the morning would pan out down at Manly this morning, and it certainly flipped around from grey to sunny, windy to calm, it was all there today. My initial view on arrival.

A small crowd initially which then swelled to a total of 320!

Jacob was one of our newbies today, met by Anne at our management table.

Some lovely Can too ladies training for an ocean swim

These two friends shared a chat and a hot drink pre swim on the wall

Michaels golden smile shines far and wide, he’s the one on the left 🙂

Happy birthday to Norman

Lots of christmas outfits are appearing in the swimmers and surf club members paddling out-professionally photobombed by Shaun, more on him later.

Elizabeth was embarking on a 6km swim today, with Val, Margot and Leveena starting together

what a pretty view:

I saw a catfish today and diamond fish:

derek took this shot of me with Gayle, Jenny and Henrietta

A bit of a wait for a tunnel today, so another snap of swimmer as they exit the water

Then we got to cheer Shaun on as he ticked off his 2000km! He had a long time out of the water with a bad shoulder, then had a shoulder replacement 18 months ago, and has slowly but surely rehabbed himself to swimming the full swim again. He’s part of the management team, and also likes to play up a bit when a camera is around. See group of jingle bells above and zoom into facial expression behind them

Max, one of our early swimmers, met up with Sarah and John in Hong Kong this week, and joined them in one of their regular swims.

Nice message to finish off with

Temperature was a lovely 20.2 today, come help celebrate our 10 year anniversary on the 27th december, have a lovely weekend everyone,

Edwina.