Mornin’ all. Inner westies here. And a warning – oodles of selfies today. It’s all about us. Indulge us please. We can’t figure out why we’re always last. So we asked some experts below. Lovely morning. Air warming up and water 18.7.   6.30 early birds coming home.   Here we are full of early...

Triathlete Paul told me there was a decent amount of rain around before the 6.30 crew departed for Shelley Beach, however, 7 am-ers were treated to a parting of the clouds and sunshine rays. A “dry” blog for me today, marking my 25th blogging episode with B&B 😀  My friend Alex kindly offered some of...

A beautiful morning at Manly even in a bit of rain   The people exercising on the beach were doing so well that I got a benefit just walking by!   Extra challenge today – getting to the swim although it was raining and a riddle to solve   Who could it be?   the...

So much for the 80% chance of rain the forecasters were predicting for 7am… It was a cracker of a morning! Well done to the 80+ swimmers who came down to near perfect conditions! The water has dropped down a little to the 18s… but the days of 15 are well and truly over for...

  Good morning folks on this beautiful warm and sunny September Wednesday! Around 130 pink capped swimmers plunged in to Cabbage Tree Bay and swam across our favourite corner of the world. I caught the sunrise at Freshwater today on the way back from my pre-swim run with another awesome group of people ( Manly...

In case anyone wasn’t tuned to News24 you might have missed the chair shuffling that ushered in a new Prime Minister. I thought we should throw out an invitation for him to join us for an inaugural swim to kick of the term. The morning was another spectacular start with a 2-3 ft North Easterly...

I arrived at Henrietta’s place on Bower St at 5:52am, a great place to watch the sunrise and the B&B passing parade.       Santori or Shelly?   walkers off the point   Paddler with Alex Jackson and Gaeton further out and on there way from QC to Shelly. Gaeton sent me some great...

Dual definitions for “sunny” today: the more literal meaning of sunlight, and a personification of the day as having a happy disposition…   Bathed in light, 160 or so swimmers entered 19.3 degree water with smiles on their faces.  Everyone must have been really keen today because it felt like we started half way across...

Winter Badge Raffle tickets are still selling – tomorrow, and of course Sunday – raising funds for our charitable host Royal Far West.  Early dawn Management here, already on the job …   — Many thanks Guy for your open-hearted talk three nights ago, which drew a full house … and much seat-trading during past...