It’s #SnapSydney day today when 1000’s of Sydneysiders will be posting photos celebrating life in this amazing city. I really feel we are the luckiest people alive starting off a stunning day with this swim. It was warm, sunny and sparkling down in our favourite corner of the world today! What a day… to...

A sensational day (again). With a low tide at 6:14 this morning there were no shortcuts but for the brave or those with no undercarriage. A 2ft swell, next to no wind with a 5 knot nor-westerly and a balmy 20 degrees with no bities to be seen. It doesnt get much better.   It...

5.51am   Smurf stretches   Bolderdashers Gaeton & Roberto   6 o’clock rocks – I swam with these guys. Tricia, thanks for the sprint pace both ways.   John Kelly’s swimming aid   6.30 drinkless express led by the urbane Jimmy   Pre 7 am activity – smile     Nat & Zoe said, “shoot us...

Mornin’ all. Inner Westies hogging the sunday blog. And we all know it wasn’t sunny today, but great to be together hitting the surf.   We need some notices up front. 125 swimmers, 7 newbies and the water was warmer than the air – 20 degrees. Here’s the notice board:   Which reminds me……….. our...

Hi Folks, it’s Lainey here covering Anna’s Saturday blog.  A few photos of today’s rainy but glorious swim and then quite a few more I’ve taken during the last week of marine life and amazing people! Also a turtle tale at the end.  Rainy, dull and damp but still around 170 of us showed up...

Several times this morning I heard people reflect how lucky we are to have the great place to swim and such a good group wit swim with. If you have been thinking of starting or getting back in to it, don’t hesitate. Just come on down any day and have a swim. Mark Bruce and...

Buzzing down at Manly Beach this morning. Around 130 of us turned up for our favourite swim… bit choppy compared to recent mornings and Scotty’s Passage was closed.   Dave with an unidentifiable female.   That made him happy…   Le Boys… and who was quickest across the bay this morning? None other than Scrappy...

All quiet on the western front on this day at eleven o’clock in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918     With Drinky in the background we managed to get a good group shot before the swim. all the gorgeous glamour girls in the front row…. Izzy, Attracta,...

Thats the motto for this family. Fiona and Matt, are healthy & proud B & B parents who love the swim so much that they share the job of minding their beautiful 8th mth old daughter Samantha in a tag team swim event a few mornings each week. They are really well organised and all...

The shoreline is constantly shifting, the waves, the ripples moving the sand.  That’s the flow of nature, a healthy environment.  Problems only arise when we attempt to lock the coastline into an artificial construct that does not honour this flow. The renown Menninger clinic performed a study investigating 400 patients who had experienced a spontaneous...