Temp: warmer in than out Swimmers: <500 Newbies: a few   2020 Summer badge ceremony. Sunday March 22nd You’ve done the hard yards and got your Summer Badge(s), now come and collect your badges with all the pomp and ceremony the B&B can muster.  Bring along $10 for each badge you have earned (correct money...

The purpose of your immune system is to fight. Fight pathogens, poisons, and things that you don’t want in your body. To do this it must differentiate between self and non-self. The self is safe, the non-self, the other, is a potential threat. It’s a complex system to say the least. The extended immune function...

Today’s blog features the A team demonstrating a very effective Covid 19 avoidance technique, more demos, hints and tips to come Some early starters including one our resident spectres, Nearly Headless Nick. As the sunrise gets later, the lights come on If Namaste is a good enough handshake substitute for Prince Charles  and the oompa...

The sky was beautiful today as I walked to the club , as we move to winter the early morning sunrises are always stunners. People were mingling pre chat I saw this on the sand before entering the water and became worried But, it was one of the loveliest swims I’ve had in a long...

Today you could see weed from every angle. It was very dark until about 644. But the early swimmers still went in. I tried a lot to upload blog but could not so posted photos on facebook This is the new Corona St Virus greeting dance temperature today was 20.3 but felt warmer huge numbers...

As I mill around the wall I hear lots of interesting theories and tid bits about ocean swimming. Such as, does spitting in the goggles actually do anything except, well, put spit in your eyes? Can you smash your breakfast right before the 6k and survive.  Is it possible to swim in a straight line blindfolded? Or is...

Dear readers, did you know there is a group of adventurous 6am swimmers that do Wednesday Ins and Outs? They bravely set off with their torches, swim along the stinger special coastline then play in and out of the waves each week. They are definitely living up to the *bold* of our namesake. Autumn has...

  Tuesday 10 March Lovely sunrise today and warm water for a Tuesday morning 🙂   Having trouble rotating the images today, so enjoy the sunrise on a 90 degree rotation ! BOTB: The Monthly Dinner – 10th March 2020 – Wine Tasting The next B&B monthly dinner will be held on Tuesday 10th March at 6.30 pm at Bluewater Restaurant. Special...

Yesterday was International Women’s Day and I was lucky enough to meet World Surfing Champion Carissa Moore: And Aussie surfers: Keely Andrew and Bronte Macaulay You can catch the action at Manly’s Sydney Surfpro Competition every day until Saturday. Today’s swim was mostly overcast in relatively warm 22 deg water with 100+ swimmers. Less smell...

  It was a grey drizzly start to the day that greeted 297 swimmers this morning. The WOWs were all ready to celebrate another year for birthday girl, Alex   Alex arrived a little late and it was time to celebrate. Anyway, everyone else was ready to dive in to a morning of calm conditions....