One of my patients told me yesterday the weather was going to change on the weekend. He called it the last hoorah from the winter season. Let’s hope so, it was greyer and colder and a bit windier when I woke up to head down to Manly. If that’s what the last of winter looks...

As we all know, swimming in Winter is exceptional. The conditions are favourable and the days beautiful. Spring has some good days but some rough days. Today was just splendid. As we approach to the daylight savings change, more and more people arrive early   Bot not these two who are here early all year...

We really are a wonderful bunch of people at Bold and Beautiful – generous with our support of Royal Far West, generous with our support of one another and we love a good cause. On Sunday we all collected our winter badges with our entry fee raising $1,372 for Royal Far West.  They wish to...

  Trevor the Turtle wasn’t to be seen today unfortunately nor the Grey Nurse, but we did get lots of sightings at the weekend so there’s a good chance they’re still around! It was a beautiful swim though. The sun was up, water calm and quite clear… and lots of grinning swimmers 🙂 🙂 A...

An imageless blog today unfortunately. Conditions like a lake this morning. When the 6:30 crew arrived at Shelly, talk was of a shark “Did you see the shark?” “It’s a decent size” “It was a Grey Nurse!” “Just over there, where that kayaker is” I had only seen a Port Jackson on my way over,...

CONDITIONS Air:             15º Surface:     Flat Wind:          Friendly Sea:            17.5º Vis:               Actually quite reasonable Seen:          Grey Nurse, two dead crays, eagle ray, fishes, togs, one lost snorkel Found:         One flipper (Red and black) Aldi bikes:    One TIME for COFFEE ENTERTAINMENT Crawdaddies at Bowlo on...

Still cloudy with intermittent rain this morning, we were greeted by the endoskeletal remains of one our cephalopod companions. Hopefully it found love before being eaten by its fellow CTB residents But enough of doom and gloom and onto the matters of the morning A newbie whose name I have forgotten (sorry!) with her Dad...

One of life’s luxuries as an ocean swimmer is the thinking time we get while in the water. No black line to follow, no laps to count, no conversations to be had while you’re actually swimming. Sometimes I concentrate on my technique (reach..catch..high elbow..pull..finish stroke), sometimes I’m too busy racing and trying to catch the...

Trigger warning: the following blog contains information about waves (scaring the s**t out of me but not literally) swimming and plastic. I hope I did that right.   I am exhausted from watching the quadruple crossing of the English Channel and then other Channel swimmers going through the night without regard for my sleeping needs....

On Tuesday I attended the Sydney Swans Champions Dinner and it left interesting thoughts with me about how our words and deeds can be the thing that inspires another to greatness.  Dane Rampe, who took out the Bob Skilton medal recounted how, in his early days at the club, it was Nick Smith who quietly...