It’s known that when you put yourself in a different environment, new genes are turned on throughout your body. These genes encode proteins that are the building blocks for a different version of yourself. A you that you’ve had the potential to be all along, but haven’t yet met. These shifts in genetic potential, or...

I received a text this morning from today’s rostered-on blogger Lips…  He can’t make the swim and could I blog instead? I haven’t blogged for 2 years …and you’ll see why below.. … I grabbed my camera and headed down. On the way I saw the 6.30’ers walking down to the harbour – The “blue-bottle...

Conditions the past few days have been perfect for open water swimming in our little corner of the ocean. Sunny, calm conditions, gentle southerly swells  and warm water temperature. Many swimmers have been happily anticipating completing a 6km swim, taking in the splendid sights of Shelley Beach, the Queenscliff boulders and the Freshwater Beach ocean...

With all the sightings of the fever of cow nosed-rays I wondered about who is the decider of collective nouns. Personally I would not have selected a ‘fever’ for rays. I think a glide of rays would be better. Their movement is so smooth and elegant. So I then wondered what is the collective noun...

Today I was greeted by calm seas, dark clouds with a touch of light coming through, and a beautiful temperature of 22 degrees. Sally convinced her cousins Michael and Disa from Armadale to come and swim, hope they saw some of the marine life Plenty of people are turning up mid week in groups and...

This question was all around the swim today as early swimmers, high on endorphins told us about the large group of Cow Nose Rays they’d seen out in the middle of the bay! Another awesome marine sighting on our morning swim. These rays were seen a couple of months ago. We thought they were migrating...

This morning I wondered if we had given the hard drives enough time to spin down, for chips to cool off and ready themselves for the myriad of potential that is 2018. After a great few days swimming in offline mode, I did see a few regulars with their usual workday strip ready for the first...

Happy New Year – shot of the night by super fish Peter Thiel.     1st swimmer of the morning Paul@5:59.     Guess who?     6:14 crew.     My buddies @6:24.   I swam with the Lucy express.     The 7am parade.     Where’s Bruce?   Sheena said, “zip me...

On this last day of they year can we all please reflect on what it was that made 2017 for us, and what some of the best things were that we can be thankful for? For me the winner must be a continuing return to good health after overcoming a significant health issue the previous...

Everyone’s under cover today! View from the bay towards Shelly – Well that was an interesting swim today! The surf was up and up and up! I couldn’t even start about the potential currents, and again we were advised to go around to Shelly as the safest option. The rain meant we had to huddle...