CONDITIONS Vision:          Dark Dark Dark Rain:             Feathery Drizzle Air:               Mild Water:          Perfect Ambience:   Serene Overnight gusts blew yesterday’s balmy heat out of units and slammed a few doors, about 1 a.m.  Waking this morning to gentle rain; I believe many pink cappers may have stayed in bed.  Swim conditions are absolutely perfect.  The beach is...

Such a gorgeous morning… Around 70 6.30am swimmers head to Shelly Beach in calm, warm and silky smooth water! We’ve had the 4 ‘S’s lately, stingers, swell, salp and sharks but today was pretty much perfect. Thank you Henrietta for letting me take the shot above from your balcony.   More 6.30am swimmers than I’ve...

  Today’s swim it was flat & glassy, warm and clear. Lots of fish and lots of slimy little brown bubbles. The bubbles are called SALP. SALP’s are barrel shaped, planktonic tunicate. It moves by contracting, thus pumping water through its gelatinous body. Slap is jet propelled and one of the most efficient movers in...

Have you noticed how with music the point isn’t to get to the end of the song. No one starts a song just so they can finish it, tick it off, and get to the next song. To do so would be to miss the point of music. Where was your intention out in the...

Mornin’ all. Inner Westies here. And what a gorgeous swim this morning. Sun and a cloudless sky after yesterday’s storms. The water was pretty clear and so warm – 23.3. About 14 newbies and 215 swimmers.  Here are some announcements up front: The Monthly Dinner is back – Guest Speaker! The first B&B monthly dinner for the year will...

A virgin blog, written in Cammeray published January 30th, a Saturday. Manly was at her beautiful best, filled with runners, paddlers and the rest.   Ian was there, John was too, greeting the newbies, as they do.   Fifteen new recruits signed their name, joining the Pacific Challenge Hall of Fame. South African Quinton came...

A nice morning for a swim. i did not catch the 6.30 swimmers on their way in. Here are some of the 7 am swimmers getting ready to go in   Henrietta with a newbie. I had a blue bottle encounter which spilled her name from my memory but welcome   Some swimmers with a...

Yet another day of strong currents and miserable weather, which meant only the hard cores ventured into the water this morning.  A group did venture over to harbourside while everyone else contemplated what to do. Management advised swimmers that an entry from half way would be a sensible approach – “none of the 6.30’s have...

Sorry quickie blog today, very busy !     Not sure it was announced yesterday, but apparently we had 70 Newbies yesterday, That’s got to be an all time high !     Is it the camaraderie of the B&Bers & wanting to be on the blog but just whip a camera out, and within...

Happy Australia Day everyone! Apologies if I’m in too many photos today. We were missing a blogger as poor old Brian was up half the night on SES duty. It was a magnificent photo taking opportunity day anyway so I didn’t mind blogging. (Lots of people insisted I get in photos as I was dressed...