I’m an ocean lover and I’m sure you are too. Swimming is one of the great joys of my life and even on stingy days & always feel happier after being in the ocean. But it seems to me its not the swimming bit I love most. In her new book, The Nature Fix, journalist...

Spectacular…..Spellbinding…..Serene….Sensational….Stunning Sunrise! I couldn’t choose which adjective to best describe the beautiful morning, so you have them all! It was perfect. I will try and detail the highlights  to the best of my ability, for those unfortunate swimmers who couldn’t make the swim this morning. It was a very comfortable 22.7 in the water which...

Morning all, seems Valentines day is here and for those that have a someone, I hope your wishes were well received. To the day and a kinda cloudy mix today but thankfully cooler with a low tide and southerly swell at 1 to 1.5 meters on a 11 second swell mostly at the north ends of the...

  You are invited to our Fiona’s Art Exhibition this weekend: Fiona’s underwater meditation “I think of paintings and colours while I swim. I try and sort my life out. I look at the way things flow this way and that…With the other swimmers I’m often focused on the particular experience of swimming – rotating my...

Mornin’ all. Inner Westies here. Gorgeous swim. 63 newbies – can you believe it! May they hang on with us over the winter months… SD total swimmers estimate 437. Water 24.1 degrees, air about 26. Water calm and clear. Couldn’t ask for more perfect weather. Is it worth getting up early on a Sunday morning?  ...

What better way to start another blistering hot day than by going for a swim in the ocean! The water felt refreshing on the body at 23.9 degrees which was cooler than the 28 degree air temperature. You would never guess that we only have 2 weeks left of summer, let’s enjoy every minute. The fabulous...

I would like to recognise the unsung heroes who supply us with acronyms. They are the dinosaur age whose work evolved into SMS so we can walk around saying LOL and IMHO or YOLO and everyone knows what we mean. We almost had in the 1990s the Federal Administrative Review Tribunal but someone stopped it...

After a couple of days of rain and lumpy seas today things had settled down quite a bit.  We are all bracing ourselves for the heatwave that is about to hit us over the next few days but what better way to cool down than a beautiful swim from Manly to Shelly and back.   This...

Around 50 early swimmers at 6.30am. It may have seemed a miserable day when we woke up to rain and wind, but somehow it’s always a lot brighter down in our favourite corner… It’s my first ‘Dry Blog’ in over 4 years of blogging as have to dash off at 8.30am! (That means blogging without...

Morning all, apologies bout the delay but just couldn’t get a spare moment today to post these pics. I hope they find you eventually. 1/2 a meter of SSE swell on 6 seconds, so really nothing for us in the corner to speak of. Planned to rise to 1 meter tomorrow but really wont notice it...