Yep it was cold, but refreshingly so. Once you got to the point it warmed up at least 1 degree. A light easterly breeze and next to no swell at all and zing in the water at 15.5 degrees. That was the summary, and the detail will see the swell rise through to Saturday to...

A peek of Sun behind a strip of cloud, a smattering of rain after a breath of wind. All on top of a gentle swell…                     Have a great week, Andrew Stats: Swimmers  107 Newbees  1 Water  16.4 degrees C   Monthly Dinner – 14th August 2018 – Guest...

Why do we come to the beach? For the sunrise       For the ambiance   For the friends For community (and cakes). This stall raised over $1700 to support drought stricken farmers. Wonderful work everyone. Roz, Syd and Fi basking in the warm inner glow   For the shenanigans   For the swim…....

  Today’s inspiration was this image, that popped up on a search I was doing for work. ( credit for picture quotes ‘bestbeachquotes_facebook’ )  The B&B, and our tribe the Manly Express is my escape from the richness and variety, of life’s ups and downs. I have decided it is an escape to rather than an...

Another Smoky day in Sydney. We poor asthmatics! Enough back burning for me. I have been watching Tony Robinsons’s Ancient English  Walks where he is going along the Ickneild way. By now there are surely grooves in various paths as swimmers (especially regulars) make their way from home using their usual path, parking in the...

It seems to me that all the kool kids have birthdays in August and the party continued on today, this time celebrating LesBubs – more on the festival of Lesley shortly. Lainey did some special baking to celebrate the occasion. Were we seeing double, it was Fi and Fi on the wall. The sunrises over...

  It was two of our regular swimmers birthdays today, Shelley and Shane. It was another of those gorgeous Winter mornings with a stunning sunrise, a chill to the ocean but certainly a day you’d regret not getting down to Manly. Here’s Shelley at Shelly singing Happy Birthday to herself 😉 and of course looking...

Wanna know how to keep your feet warm after the swim?….ask Chris   Beautiful morning for Yoga and lots of yogi’s today. Stunning sunrise at Manly It was hoodie weather after the swim. The WOW’s are showing us “how to do the Hoodie” in style.   Loving the colours today.   Well, what a great...

A red light might be a frustrating interruption to your day. Or, it could be an opportunity to get your windscreen cleaned. And who couldn’t do with a little more clarity? Wash away all the grime that separates you from the better view of reality… Everything has a purpose, everything is perfect, this is a...

A total of 219 healthy looking swimmers (incl. 4 newbies!) showed up for a warm-ish morning.   While air and water temperature were up, under-water visibility was down due to northerly winds overnight. Annie stopped me to tell me about the cuttlefish graveyard that had emerged in the bay:   Indeed, the bay and the...