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....

On running down to the shore to catch the early swimmers this morning, I was assaulted (yes assaulted!) by a truly awful smell. So awful I can’t think of a family friendly way to describe it so I won’t even try. We all need our immune systems to be working in this time of plague,...

Well Autumn has sprung – if that can be an expression – and today I was sprung by Bruce from the A Team as he noted I only photograph the good looking. True. I blog the BB swimming group which is comprised of swimmers all of whom are good looking and, being swimmers above average...

Another wet and choppy morning swim with a low turnout as you would expect. You’ll see from the smiles below, the damp weather didn’t affect these swimmers, because we know about the affects weather can have on our mood and wellbeing. It’s not surprising that the temperature gives us lots of metaphors for moods. With...

There were two schools of thought, in addition to schools of fish, on the conditions of the swim today! Sue Marinan gave it thumbs down with words along the lines of gloomy, dark, bumpy, wet, cold! Ros Ex and Petra, on the other hand, thought it was fabulous, glorious, beautiful and smooth at Shelly. Petra,...

            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 guest, David Webster, will present the range of Bold and Beautiful wines especially for B&B members and their friends. The Bold and Beautiful wines were born out of...