CONDITIONS Air:              9º Surf:            Passive Bay:            Wishy-washy, shredded seaweed … freezing at Shelley Beach Water:        16.6º (Taken by The Cammeray Turkey Basters) Newbies:    3.5 Swam:         140 wetsuits, 32 skins WALK MY WAY Roger is effectively blind in frontal view, and relies on swimming by the side of another,...

An early start for me as I had to get to work earlier than usual. No shortage of swimmers about at an early time though.     Check the conditions for yourself Martin getting an early start for a long swim   Getting ready   Here they are dressed in normal clothes but at the...

We were told to prepare for a large swell so many of us rocked up this morning prepared for a bit of excitement going out to the point.  The as you drove down to the beach I’m not sure if it was disappointment or excitement that it was relatively flat with only a few challenging...

  Perfect Water Temp 16 degrees, visibility superb. a few newbies and lots of swimmers.   https://youtu.be/tfH27KKQzHs        

Today’s tech issue was… no battery in the camera! Thanks to Rog and Lainey for saving the day.. again.   What better way to start your birthday than with a swim, Peter said.     It was also Andrew’s birthday today, here with his wife Juliette. They are regulars at the swim from Normanhurst, and...

Clear cool water at 17 degrees C. Mild swell. Clear warm skies and 11.8 degrees C on the beach at 6:55am. 142 Swimmers 2 New Swimmers          

Not sure what the stats were … water was cold … sun was warm 🌞🌞 I was “chased” by a Port Jackson shark on the surface of the water!! it was amazing… no one believed me though 😂  

Happy birthday to blogger  extraordinaire, Lainey, who celebrates her XXX (<- insert number here) birthday today! She received a good birthday singing and splashing from the crowd before yelling ‘Lets Go!’ and racing back for tea!       We were a bit worried about the supposed cold change that was due to come through...

THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS Swimming in the sea connects us to nature – the seasons, its secrets, its treasures. And today there was a visit by dolphins in the early swim. I saw them. They must have been keen to swim with the early swimmers who are an impressive group.   Dolphins Manly 16/08/2019...

I wonder why we B&Bers relish our morning talks, and what makes catching up with each other as enjoyable as the swim. Of course there’s lots of reasons why our conversations work, and one of them is because we ‘turn towards’ more often than we ‘turn away.’ Turning towards is both a physical thing –...