It’s 6:14 a.m. and still dark at the beach.The streetlights are on, casting their quiet glow along the curve of the shoreline. A garbage truck rolls past with its flashing yellow lights, the only real movement in an otherwise sleepy morning. Across the sand I can see the bright lights of Queenscliff pool, and the...

I swam north (50 stroke sprints) @6:33 with Brett et al plus Clair. Jules’ last day (for now) swam with the ‘big boys & fast girls in the DX. Greg aimed for the perfect DX group shot. The Bishop inferred the A-team was faster than the DX. I saw a sky-writer before the shark alarm@7:22!!...

What a beautiful autumnal morning for the distribution of our summer badges. Congratulations to everyone who battled the challenges thrown at you this summer to complete our swim challenges. What a lot of challenges there were- summer challenge-30 swims, super swimmer(SSS)-50 swims, triple(3.5km), 6km & 10km. Congratulations to everyone who completed a challenge this summer...

Today was a welcome back to the bay after some time off due to conditions and work. Temperature is 22 degrees and felt warmer,  we had a cooler air temp but it’s now becoming a warm , autumn day. I missed any newbies cos I was slow to arrive , welcome to anyone who was...

The roar. An hour before sunrise we arrive. Cant sleep. Surfline upgraded its wave size forecast overnight. But we can’t see anything, walls of foam. The horizon past the point disappearing as something moves, then stalls, crashes, adrenaline starting to pump. 620 we can’t wait any longer. Snoopy, wave queen, and me paddle, closely followed...

Ian said the visibility was still pretty good, thankfully with none of the bull shark booger. Hopefully that has gone for permanently. Per the sign the beach is closed today, so like the good clubby I am I did not go in. Our Kiwi neighbours have kindly sent us a Tasman Low. The surfers are...

Good morning, Bold and Beautiful swimmers. Today was my first proper Bold and Beautiful swim from Manly to Shelly in quite a while. The last real one I did was the Cole Classic, which made me realise just how long it’s been. I have still been swimming, but mostly in the harbour netted areas. I’ve...

Today’s swim was all about a paddle out for Michael, husband of Julie Isbill , founder of our swim group, who died recently. The water temp is down to the 22’s , much more like an autumn swim finally. Conditions were ok apart from lots of algae , I only swam to the pool and...

I am writing this from a remote location. It is something that we all learned about during covid – school from home, work from home and now blog from work. But you will note that while you can swim anywhere instead of Manly, you cannot tick the swim if you do. So it is not...

At this time of the year I often feel Mother Nature is holding her breath as late Summer eases into Autumn. The air is often still and close and humid with barely a puff of breeze, especialy in the morning.Any evening storms are most welcome, unless you’re a pet who’s terrified of them. Still a...