Another lovely morning 9 degrees outside and 16.6 in the water but it felt cooler than that!           It was glassy and clear, lots of fish life in Cabbage Tree Bay. One of those days when you wish that you had a snorkel …..so you don’t miss any fish life. Much...

Another morning, another elegant lesson from nature.  As if it knows we need a constant reminder that cold, dark times are transient.  Like the way that spring time follows winter, every year – always. It’s the same way every hero and every story’s happy ending needs a catalyst to make it so.  That’s the gift...

August celebrates the month of the lions, and peeling back the layers at B&B Central, you will find that a good percentage of our bloggers are the Sun star sign, Leos. Checking on the reliable ‘Interweb’ I found that Leos are typically kind and big hearted, energetic, optimistic, straightforward, loyal, confident, ambitious, generous, and encouraging....

I love the word gregarious.  It means “seeking and enjoying the company of others”.  I see gregariousness everywhere I look at B&B: from the gathering of wetsuited bodies outside Manly Life Saving Club to the social behaviours of fish beneath us in the bay we love.  The ocean draws us together.  Here’s a snapshot of...

  Half-moon Booty: Emma is smoking them in the beach sprint … — Yesterday’s 15.1º was a smidge off record of 14.9º.  So, where will it go today?  They stand and wait …   — Mr Bond rolls up pants and removes watch …   — While Annie and Claire get the machine up to...

What a morning… we were bathed in sunshine! How nice it is to be getting off your bike from cycling down to the swim, to be greeted by your good mate Dave!   And then you wander over to the clubhouse… great to see brother James… and then Sterling rattling on about how he beat...

We all know the clubhouse temperature is out by about 4 degrees, but everyone loves to get their photo taken with it. We had about 70+ people today plus 2 newbies   Panda had the right idea & dressed appropriately.   Before John Bond took the temperature it looked like this, but I’m told it was 15.5...

With the report of 1 meter of deep south swell meandering its way up the coast from a snowbound Tassie, what wasn’t to look forward to.  To our fellow B&B’s Ian Johnston and Catherine Hawkins who brave the swim in Hobart most mornings, the least we could do is step out in balmy Manly.  ...

Long term B&B hard throb, the softly spoken, would be Anaesthetist with an english/Manly accent, together with his beautiful partner is flying home today for 7 years of hard hard labour in the northern Antipodes. He plans to add the initials FRCA (Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists) to his name before finally deciding whether...