Mornin’ all. Inner Westies here. Yes, it’s been a while. Bit chilly this morning after the heatwaves this week, but the water was warm (20.9) – big crowd (280) and 19 newbies – they just keep on comin’! There were a few jimble reports from the early swimmers, but Ian’s wonderful instructions to ‘hug the...

                                  —————— ——————-         Stats: Temp:  21º Newbies: 17  (!!!) Swimmers:  300

Bit of rain this morning… kept the crowds away… sorted the diehards from the ‘simply keen’… but it actually turned out to be a lovely swim!   Check out this rig! Not bad for a 64 year old. I always like to ask Drinky what the condition are like before jumping in at the 7am....

What a relief it was today on two counts – one the waves were much friendlier looking, even though there was a light drizzle and two: that stifling heat was gone with that southerly coming through last night. There was a large group of 6.30 swimmers out to play.  Reports on their return from Drinky...

Our 1000 km swimmer, Shelley Keeble, came up with today’s blog title! When many of us rolled up at the Surf Club it was only 8 hours previously that we had been dancing to ‘Come on Eileen’ at the B&B Xmas party! It felt like the party hadn’t ended with such a fun and friendly...

The Surf has kicked up, most people walked to Shelley.   Stunning beams of light captured by Edwina.   Melissa, Edwina, Terry & Brian looking forward to their swim.   Terry & Brian, watching the passing parade.   Monica, Lisa, Jenny & Edwina getting ready. Hamming it up for the camera.   Ian, letting everyone...

  Tricia & Clair led the 6am charge through a very choppy swim all the way to Shelly. 5.54am     Clubbers   Bootie Bootie   John Kelly’s sign language     Invasion of Swiss newbies Severine, Lucas, Jeanine and Pablo     Matching toes, bag, cap and togs.   Have a great week ahead.  ...

There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. Yesterday John Bond valiantly led the 6k & 10k groups on what was described as a spectacular swim. Here are a couple of photos and you can clearly see on their faces that the pain of those distances was definitely outweighed by the pleasure of participating and...

This is Ojigi Fukusuke bidding you ‘welcome’ to the blog, to the swim and to a summer of smiles. Being a Japanese symbol of good luck and happiness, who better to herald in the summer badge swims and navigate around challenges (I’m thinking mostly the nasty stinging ones).   The pre-swim topic was the 6km...

Ocean:     Flat flat flat Temp:     20.4º Vis:           Very poor Seaweed:  Mostly gone Air:         A brisk breeze coming off the mountains Sun:        Eventually up and welcomingly warming Swimmers:  280 Newbies:    Seven ———- Stuff that happened yesterday Jeff did a double and got the chills …   ———– Penny (Mrs Drinks Express) dropped by for coffee time...