Nice and warm today air temp 25 degrees, water temp 21.5 degrees.   Congratulations to Cheryl on completing her 500km, well done. Cheryl – Celebrating with her B & B friends at Shelley.   Waves were up a bit today.   Some of the happy faces of 6.30am swimmers returning.   Greg enjoyed his swim....

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Having just returned from over 3 months of travelling, it was wonderful to be greeted by the smiles and hugs of all my B&B buddies. Then to hit the pristine waters of CTB, no homecoming could have been sweeter. Meanwhile as another day dawned, swimmers were making their way down for a dose of happiness....

Morning all- today’s swim for me was all about friends and the friendships formed down with the B+B group. We had the memorial swim for Ed Selby who passed away from pancreatic cancer in October. His three sons paddled out into the bay with a circle of swimmers as they scattered his ashes. The Sandy...

I get to the beach and see blue bottles on the sand. Oh no. The early swimmers who could lie but always faithfully report the conditions say there are none at Queenscliff (but I am at South Steyne). Also going to Shelly, the blue bottles are at the rocks so go wide. As we all...

We’ve seen Brexit and Trump now we have our own revolution brewing at the Bold and Beautiful… Some people are born revolutionaries, some acquire the revolutionary spirit, and some have revolution thrust upon them. In Teds case it is all 3. You see while the masses simply swim to Shelly and back Ted has invented...

  Title courtesy of lovely Jim Hudson today as we sat together at Bluewater post swim…Around 170 folks swam with this amazing group today on such a beautiful Spring morning. The Manly Daily has asked people to snap away this morning showing how Sydney wakes up and hashtag snapsydney. We who swam, ran, booty camped...

News Updates If you go to Hakan’s cafe, you will have to be patient.  It’s becoming extremely popular, and he’s the only barista – going as fast as he can   ————– Queensland last weekend About 40 to 50 of us went to the Whitsundays for the Whitehaven Beach Ocean Swim event … Qld Social...

Today a friend of mine is having her fifth round of surgery for breast cancer, and I was reminded we all need to remember to be grateful for every day we get to stop and smell the roses. The view at North Steyne where I park my car welcomed me down to swim, even it...

Mornin’ all. Inner Westies here. So what were all the flies doing hangin’ around this morning? Couldn’t wait to get in the water and away from them. Lovely swim – warm water (20 degrees) A bit of sediment around, but no stingers. 13 newbies and at least 300 swimmers!   Pretty big tide this morning...