It was another stunning morning in Manly. I managed to find a fantastic car park on Victoria Parade and I ran into all round great guy, Cam. We enjoyed a lovely early morning coffee at Hakan’s (pre 6.30am).   We then walked around to the B&B swim where we were greeted with a beautiful sunrise....

                                    ————— B&B Monthly Dinner at Bluewater Cafe Tuesday 11th July at 6.30 pm at Bluewater Restaurant. Chief Superintendent Kenneth Murphy (aka Smurf) Clarification Tuesday week 11th is monthly dinner – and not to be confused with bookings for Trivia Night – which...

Next week marks week seven in the winter badge challenge.  The challenge, for those that don’t know is to swim and log 20 swims over 7 different weeks during June, July and August.  If you are really game, you can do it without a wetsuit for an extra www badge. Make sure you log them...

  What a cracking smile! It was lovely Emma’s 500km swim today and she got a looong tunnel after we waited for her to finish her double. Well done Em! Around 120 of us got our Vitamin Sea today on a stunning Winter morning! Down in our favourite corner… Air temp was around 13 and...

Its like summer again, after the last few days being so cold. Air temp was 16 degrees and water temp 18.5. There were 4 Newbies, 200 swimmers.   Scott, enjoying the warm temp (relatively) today after his 7am swim.   Brad & John   James, looking great.   Andrew & Josephine (who has her own...

  CONDITIONS Air temp:   6º Sky:   Clear Ocean:  18.5º Vis: 9 outa 10 (With phosphorescence at 6 am) Sunrise: Shot blood red Beanies: Everywhere … it’s chilly today!!   Two winters ago (Lesbubs Productions Pty Ltd)    Click and Play Below: My vote for this year’s calendar cover (Denton Photography Pty Ltd) Below:...

 It was 7 degrees today as I walked to the swim and my hands were frozen. Not as frozen as my feet were afterwards. Luckily the water temperature is holding out for us, still above 18 degrees every day, today was 18.4. Everyone is ticking that swim box to collect the winter swim badge, with...

Musings from …. It was bloody cold this morning……6 degrees at Cammeray and & 7 degrees at Manly…… Cold enough to ‘freeze a badge of a winter B&B er….!’ The Drinks crew was a little light on for numbers,  but lucky us …the outside air temperature was making it’s magic under the waters of Cabbabage...

Happy Friday. Happy end of financial year. WWW – possibly the most recognised acronym in the world – yes winter without a wetsuit or winter with a wetsuit ! I have also heard other versions of what the acronym stands for too but these are the main ones. And here are some swimmers who agree...

Seems we formed a little group that has the same design principles that won a Nobel Prize.   In 2008 Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for Economics for her study of Prosocial groups like ours. The word prosocial refers to anything—such as an attitude, belief, behavior, or institution or swim group—that is directed toward...