BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY SWIMMING AS A GROUP SOCIAL DISTANCING IS STILL REQUIRED. STAY INSIDE UNLESS EXERCISING. EXERCISE AND GO HOME CORONAVIRUS (COVID) Swimmers are coming from all over to swim at Shelly, Halfway and South Steyne. Here are Jess and Tom at Shelly. It took me ages to get in and they...

While ANZAC Day blessed us with the most incredible swim conditions which will be etched in our memories forever…         ….swimming is not the only exercise that can create immense satisfaction! Walking in the fresh air is another! If you haven’t already, pull on your joggers and walk briskly around your suburb,...

I was lucky enough to bump (not literally) in to Pauline and Ian on their beach walk this morning probably around 6.27am as the sun rose. As you can see it was a bit choppier today but the water still a warm 22 degrees! Just a quick blog today as it’s not really my blog...

Searching on google to ascertain what ‘generation’ my 2 year old nephew would be assigned to, revealed lists of named ‘generations’ going back quite a way. We all know about, ‘Millennials’, ‘Gen Y’, ‘Gen X’. And we’ve had Late Baby Boomers, Early Baby Boomers and before them the Silent Generation… Then we get to the...

Eastern suburbs beaches were closed within a half day of being re-opened. Please don’t let that be us. BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY SWIMMING AS A GROUP SOCIAL DISTANCING IS STILL REQUIRED. STAY INSIDE UNLESS EXERCISING. EXERCISE AND GO HOME CORONAVIRUS (COVID) Rather a lot of people for 8am There were lots of people...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY SWIMMING AS A GROUP SOCIAL DISTANCING IS STILL REQUIRED. STAY INSIDE UNLESS EXERCISING. EXERCISE AND GO HOME CORONAVIRUS (COVID) I don’t blog to sound judge-y but this morning there were a lot of people hanging around as though the flattening curve allows for normality to be restored. It is...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY RUNNING DUE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL DISTANCING AND STAYING INSIDE AS MUCH AS IS POSSIBLE DUE TO CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19).   Hey groovers! I’ve estimated we are around week 4 of staying at home in isolation and whilst the days have been glorious and offered swimming perfection, as the sun...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY RUNNING DUE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL DISTANCING AND STAYING INSIDE AS MUCH AS IS POSSIBLE DUE TO CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19).   Coral and Pearl have been wanting to share one their new found isolation hobbies since their last post so thought we could all try some origami today. Before...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY RUNNING DUE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL DISTANCING AND STAYING INSIDE AS MUCH AS IS POSSIBLE DUE TO CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19). That doesn’t mean to say we can’t exercise… so for most of us it’s a swim earlier or later than the usual 7am time, on our own or with...

101 years ago my grandfather George Cowell was recovering from Spanish flu at a military hospital in England. He was 22. His ship had been on its way to the Western Front when it picked up supplies and the Spanish Flu virus in Sourh Africa. On his ship Barambah, 800 of the 1000 troops came...