What a morning! We had sunshine, calm water, no stingers and fair visibility. It was a beautiful swim with water temp at 18.1. A lot of regular swimmers were back from overseas trips like Dr Michele above who did the entire Comino walk with partner Martin! These are the 5.48amers that are swimming to Shelly...

5 B&B CHRISTMAS PARTY   B&B Christmas Party is back again this year !! The Party will be held on Monday 11th December from 6 pm at Bucketty’s Brewing Co, 26 Orchard Rd, Brookvale. All swimmers and partners/friends are welcome (no under 18s unfortunately). The theme is simply “Christmas”, so come dressed in your finest Christmas paraphernalia. The music this year will again be provided...

  Like some sort of horrendous gender reveal party, today there was a sprinkling of pink (jimbles) and blue (blue bottles) around. Some swimmers reported nil sightings and others reported stings.   But the swim was magnificent   Clare is visiting from the Gold Coast! FFF on land Chad As usual, I asked everyone about...

One word. Joy. So good to have Andre back amongst us. Sophia also back after a very civilized European visit..including a half marathon. Well done. Also back is the action event of the week… the FFF… remember 625am on the ramp. Every Friday. Blocky lays down the rules, we do our best to break them....

Wednesday 25th October – seemed full of “weirdness” for some reason.  Firstly the sky was weirdly eerie – a red dawn followed by a thickening cloud stealthily slowly blanketing the city from the south, transforming the seas from calm to calamity …. Perhaps also due to the advent of “Scorpio season”  (which started on Monday)...

Making the most of today’s good weather with a sunny forecast of 27c as Thursday’s forecast of a rainy 16c is not so appealing. A tribe of Budgie Smugglers heading in. Melissa (love her vibrant dresses) and Henrietta welcoming newbie, Meg, who has just arrived from the UK and is joining the ever growing team...

5.47am 18.7 degrees I swam early but posted late. 5.48 crew At  5.49 I swam with this crew  to The Steyne & The Trident And back The DX crew swam at 6.29 to Shelly I hope you have a safe and enjoyable week. Simon  

Something for the surfers at last. FFFs returned today and will repeat every Friday for a while. A delightful fixture on the beach.  

The water temp was down to 16.5 today and air temp only 12 degrees. I have to admit I didn’t go in today, even though…’you never regret a swim’, ‘you’re not properly awake until you get in the ocean’, all these mantras came to mind but I just had a run and coffee instead…people that...