What a lovely swim for us today. A beautiful sunrise as well.   Our Tuesday Yogi’s are “hard at it”   This is Lainey and her beautiful Mother Ann, who is celebrating 80 years young today! Happy Birthday from all of us at B & B Ann.   Even the view at Blue Water was...

I was lucky enough to swim with the 6:10am crew, hightide warm waterered bumpy swim with some great body surfing waves on the return journey.     Some of Fifi’s Pre-dawn shots. Only 4 swimmers with the 6:30 crew followed by the launching of the JetSki.     Welcome back Sarah and Jon who’ll be...

The wind had swung around to the South, the blueys had been blown back out to sea and there was a beautiful even swell rolling in.   A blissful start to the day. Matt and Pia   Carol and Inge both eager to hit the water. Caitlin and Tim Nick and his much younger sister, Anna....

Good morning and happy weekend, dear reader. This (gorgeous) morning I arrived just in time to follow the 6:30 starters down to the water, and on the way met up with the ever photogenic Michele and Martin     This pooch was waiting patiently for its human   Down on the shoreline I took a...

Some of BB live in Manly and some of us travel. For all of us, the destination is swimming at Manly and Shelly. Lots of water moving about today and warnings of blue bottles so many swimmers went north. But with so many waves, they had to get to the horizon to swim safely behind...

This morning we were faced with the stark realisation that winter is just around the corner – with the water a little nippy to get in but then after a few strokes around in the bay and it was back to the warm summer temperatures. Along the high tide mark there were plenty of bluebottle...

21/2/2018  Well, the header does not really apply to the surf break, still a bit intimidating and not much of a difference to yesterday.   Surf yesterday …   … leaving Inge is disbelief … and surf today, which apparently did not deter the early morning swimmers. From the point on however, it was a...

Not a great deal of good news today with a lowish tide on the rise and the dregs of the easterly swell being mixed with a rising SSE wind-swell at 1-1.5 metres and the occasional bigger set. However great news that there were no blueys or other nasty bitey critters around. Grey and a bit dismal...

PHYSALIA – BLUEBOTTLEs (AKA) PORTUGESE/PACIFIC MAN-O-WAR have been menacing us for a few weeks leaving their marks on many B&Bers. Trish was hit last Saturday .         Lips’ famous sting is part the Australian Museum’s  collection.     Sam’s Harry Potter scar lasted long enough to become a Roger cartoon.     I...

The surf beach was closed today due to big swell courtesy of Tropical Cyclone Gita:   Late blog post courtesy of Typepad which was also closed for most of the day:   Anyway, here’s the gist of what happened this morning:   Halfway bouncer:     Water safety significantly downgraded from yesterday:      ...