It was with some trepidation that 340-odd swimmers (including 10 brave newbies) entered the water this morning.  The water temperature was a pleasant 23 degrees but news of blue bottles at the Point soon filtered through the milling throng.   Above: The view looking north. Most decided to swim north, although this too resulted in...

With a low tide and a touch of last weeks East swell, the new Southerly ground swell made for some nice small waves further up the beach but even the low tide couldn’t convince them to break at the point. None of that mattered this morning as the bathtub 23 degree conditions made for ideal...

Water, the ocean, appears in many ancient stories, be it Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, and almost all of the religious texts. Usually as a metaphor for chaos and foreboding, the dark deep unknown. But it isn’t just a chaotic, fearful place to be avoided. There’s a recurring theme of it as the necessary chaos from which order is...

Another perfect morning for a BnB swim. 22.4 degrees in the water, a nice even swell and the point almost flat. However, the Cole Classic was in town so we were swimming North.   Numbers were down substantially this morning due to a lot of the regulars swimming in the Cole as well as a lot...

Morning all! Fewer people today, possibly being kept away by the dark clouds, intermittent rain and greatly reduced parking due to the Sun Run ending at Manly Beach. The Cole Classic will be held tomorrow and I’m going to start with information about this today rather than putting it at the end of the blog....

I did not see the super moon so instead today with a group of others I had a super swim. Here are the Babewatch group who swim with BB and talk about anxiety and depression that  people suffer from to raise awareness. Apart from that awareness-raising and being very excellent swimmers (with Murray aka The...

So it’s the first day of the shortest month of the year and the beginning of the last month of summer. And we know the root of February is the Latin februum, which means purification. So it could be a good time to cleanse yourself of something – a time to clear out that room...

The Manly Daily got it wrong today… Murray and his Babewatch group got on front page and page 9! But…it was mentioned that ‘Babewatch is billed as an alternative to Manly’s popular Bold and Beautiful Swim Squad’. How dare they! As founder Murray told me today, they are an integral part of the B&B and...

Morning all, and what a spectacular morning it was. High tide and about a meter of ENE swell with 23.5 degrees in the water. Very hard to find a good excuse except for the cancellation of the T3 lane and for all those ferrying kids to schools over the small bridge or big one, it...

Yesterday, Bob swam at Northbridge baths today, returned to his favourite bench near lane 1 and passed away peacefully.     I swam at 5:55 with Jo and Ali, after this shot with Miles.     6:30’s swim in pairs.       Jo got to hold 14 wk old Jack while mum Lynette waited...