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...

The late sunrise and dim light from the beach front were unable to hide the fact that the tide was very low. In fact it was only .34m high at 6.23am. so the lucky 6.30’s literally walked to the point.       Jill and John preparing to set out     Shelley, Guy, Dorsett,...

                                                                                Have a great week everyone. Brian And now the news and upper management business. Important...

No BnB camera today, so no blog. Here’s what it looked like from dry land…           Important notice! TRIVIA NIGHT 2017 Note from Management: to clear up any confusion, the 2017 Quiz Night is not a B&B event.  It is an event run outside of B&B by two B&B members, Roz...