Yes it was a bit “wishy washie” today. We all burnt a few extra calories today ready for the PARTY tonight. As always it was Still fun and great to see everyone having a crack at the swim no matter what! See you all at the PARTY tonight! Jenny 🙂     Christmas Raffle...

Dive into it, you make the morning. Your smile signals the dawn is done and day has now begun, dive in. Grains of sand, future joys exposed for just a moment then washed out of reach, Knee deep apprehension limiting dreams, you can’t live them from here, so dive in. Rip that band-aid from yesterday’s...

Mornin’ all. Inner Westy here. Yep. Singular this morning. My team have deserted me. But 235 others kept me company. Including 16 newbies. Here is a very special newbie. Lucy from Gulgong swam with aunty Jane and the rest of us. She’s 11. Fantastic achievement !   Here are two more lovely recent recruits.   Bit...

He’s everywhere.  Upsetting the lifeguards with his bags …   — Crowding up the ramp – and surfing in the no-go zone … — “Wait til you hear what he said yesterday morning …”   —   This is when he tried to get credit for saving Brendan (from himself) – after Izzy’d done all...

04/12/2015  –  Speed For my birthday a couple of weeks ago, I got a present from my 16 year old son Marco: a voucher for a free swim with him. Marco used to swim with me when I started B&B in November 2012. He was a kid back then, enjoying dad’s company, and more or...

Still a bit cool hey? 19.4 degrees was better than earlier in the week though… but where has summer gone? Oh well, don’t despair, it will be back. 92 of us hit the water this morning and it was my kinda day – flat and fast!   Bruce and Bruce… one is a Minister of...

   You know it’s going to be a good day when you start your day with a B&B swim. ..Whatever is going on in your life, you know if you get out of bed early, get your body down to Manly, see the smiles of these friendly people and throw yourself in that ocean, you...

Another glorious morning with 1.2ft swell from the east nor east at 9 second intervals with a NNW-NE 5knot zephyr of a wind. A small amount of chop for the home leg. The cold temps of yesterday have given way by 3 degrees and warmed again to 21 degrees with a joyous 35 degrees expected...

Clair said, “If the 1st five pictures of the blog are about me, you can come with us to the Whitehaven,  Qld swim next year”. #1 Clair @ 5.30am   #2 Star jump @ 5.50am   #3 With the girls (Dawn, Ali, Mary, Ali, Clair, Nichole) after Clair’s pre-6.30am triple Shelly #4 Race Branded and...

Move over Julie and Matt. Today, Brian and Jenn had their moment of glory. The first weekend swimmers to reach the coveted 1000km mark!   The NE had been blowing all night. Which made for a wild and bumpy morning. A total of 128 swimmers lapped it up with great gusto.   I decided to introduce my 7-year-old to...