A beautiful Autumn day for BB to mark ANZAC Day 2015.   People were getting ready for the ceremony families, newbies and regulars Ian, Alana, John and more. A newbie signing in among the red poppies… Sterling can say tomorrow what happened with the Triple Crown race. Important information distributed     Patrick preparing for...

  RACING HAIRCUTS Here is a close cut, suitable for improving your swim time.  It’s a seven-year-old’s first effort … but she still hit me up for 20 dollars.  Enquiries to Ringworm Roger   — RACING TOMORROW Reposting Sterlo’s comprehensive scoreboard for first two legs.  Third and final race is tomorrow Anzac Day – battling...

Sterling here filling in for the Bishop who is expecting the arrival of No. 2 this morning. Time to wake up – it’s swim time! Finally the sun is out Great to see George this morning And sea-life rejoicing Yours truly had the swim of his life, coming in a narrow fourth. But Scotty too...

Yep that’s right only 17 brave fool hardy souls swam today ! First arrivals @ a bit past 6am. Gayle, John, Bruce & Ian.   The Booty Boss & Gayle doing a run to the pipe and back   Conditions  weren’t looking that great as different sets came rolling in !   Cap’less Dave ponders...

“A Few Good Men” (& Women) are Volunteers ! Our regular Tuesdays blogger & his wife Melissa & Brian are volunteers for the SES ! so as you could imagine they had a very busy night & didn’t get any sleep doing a sometimes thankless task !!! This sign says it all doesn’t it !...

“I’ll try”… Stand up and say those two words out loud.  Go on, we can wait… It blows the wind out of your chest.  There’s an emptiness, it just hangs there.  You ever notice that? Now say, “I’ll do my best”…  Notice how your chin lifts?  There’s certaintly.  Stuff’s gonna get done!   How about...

Mid April and we see beautiful skys, relatively sunny days for this time of year, and lovely warm water….. …….oh and then there’s those things called waves!! The morning temperatures can be a little nippy and we see the return of the B&B hoodies. The Brucy’s have forgotten something!! Media stars are low key on...

  Today was a little bit choppy but the water temperature was delightful. I heard many a comment post swim of how much people enjoyed being in the ocean this morning. Time to swim! A bit chilly?!   These cheekies: Pals at Le Point: Such a photogenic pair!   There were turtle sightings, a Dusky,...

  Green Turtle seen munching away on rocks today, close to Fairy Bower. Thought I’d give you a quick update on the fantastic talk by Richard Nicholls from Manly Dive Centre on Tuesday night at Bluewater Cafe. He told us that in the 80’s Shelly Beach was known as ‘Smelly Beach’ because of the sewage...

Good morning beach tractor…   115 or so of us gathered for the swim this morning. The A-team minus Brad were all there for a good old fashion lung busting hit out. Nice to see Gene Simmons from Kiss come.   It was a bit bumpy but we all made it Shelly Beach where we...