Mornin’ all. Inner Westies here. The water hit 20 degrees today so official end of wetsuit season. Big crowd today – 340. And 28 newbies – they just keep on comin’ ! Here’s our first newbie – welcome Katie   Happy chappy   Big crowd Morning Tonia and Josie! Wonderful shy regular swimmers! It’s always...

As we reached the treasured point, this sunrise took our breath away. Near perfect conditions in which to swim, it sets us up, for the perfect day. Our bodies held gently by the water, cool, we are distant from the daily fray. Time is still, we ponder and chat, a moment to enjoy and play....

So many lovely creatures visiting the BB and the aquatic reserve – latest is the “fever” of eagle rays but following whales, sharks, turtles etc. They must know it is a safe zone where they will be appreciated. I am not sure the fever was there. Or perhaps there was a conspiracy of swimmers pointing...

Beautiful conditions for this morning’s swim – no rays like yesterday but we did have whales breaching as we arrived back at Manly – they must have heard about our belated party for Errol. Yesterday was Errol Abbot’s 81st birthday.  Errol is a regular B&Ber and celebrated today at Shelly Beach with the regular splash. ...

  A lot of excitement today about the large group of about 20 stingrays that were swimming in formation out near the hut at Fairy Bower. Some early swimmers told us about them as we were going out. There were quite a few of us who didn’t make it to Shelly this morning but watched...

With a late get-up today, the Sun was already ahead of us and cooking by the time the tread hit the road. So much so the rubber was not even contemplated. Next to no swell and next to no wind pretty well sums it up. 180 souls took to the good ship B&B and set sail...

Why would a parent want their child to learn, “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game”? You’d think that in today’s rat-race it would be wiser to teach them to do whatever it takes to beat the others. Play is an interesting part of who we are. Our ability...

Another top Sunday. Management is still counting, but I’m estimating 321 swimmers, including, let’s say, 12 newbies. Roz and John were there..   ..and so were Robin and Brendan:   Ian was signing up newbies:   The Girls:   The Boys:   Helen and Stacey ruining an otherwise beautiful shot of Little Sarah:   Shaun...

We have many tribes in life, be it family, friends & activities. Mostly we don’t recognise that they are our tribe (family excepted) but we know there is something that connects us. I recently started a new job and generally I jump in and don’t really think too much about the personalities or potential tribe...

Not a lot of swimmers venturing down to Manly this morning, but for those who did, fun conditions with a nice north east swell pushing into the bay!   This was the crew at 7am (though some had already ventured in or around to half way).   Some manly men! Sterling threatened not to swim...