So, I don’t get to swim all that often during the week and love reading about glorious warm water and seeing photos of lovely calm water and I turn up today to bumpy and fun! What a busy morning down at the beach. The Smile for Drake crew were out. According to Father Gerhart it’s...

Good Morning from Drinky’s Express.   I thought that I would get in the water early today and see things from a different perspective.  I managed to get a few quick pics in before the swim.  It is dark out when you start at 6:30 at the moment, but it is a great swim, swimming...

Good morning everyone and happy Friday again! It’s a little hazy again this morning (some more than others…) and the water is a little churny – yep that’s a word I just made up. The humid days are sticking with us and the swell has changed around to ENE and about 2.5 feet – it’s...

As I lay in bed listening to the rain and thunder at 2am this morning,  I thought… maybe, this will be the morning there won’t be many there, it will be called off, it won’t be magical… But… it did stay dry at Manly, it was brighter than expected, the ocean was calm and inviting…...

Another fabulous start to the day!! I missed yesterday and I gotta say my day is just not the same without my ocean swim to start me off! Water temp was: 22.3 143 and counting BnB Swimmers! (3 newbies!) You probably recognise these 3 siblings! Here most mornings with their dad…they are not officially BnB’ers...

Today, 140 swimmers – that we know about – ticked, clicked and signed up for another stunning swim to Shelly and back. It is remarkable that even on a Tuesday well past the summer madness and all those new year resolutions have been forgotten, there were 6 new swimmers signing up today.   Even more...

Simon was all set to do today’s blog but was called away unexpectedly…. All I can say is I hope everything is ok ?! So continuing from Simon 🙂 ……….. Greetings from Manly, NSW, Australia! Coordinates: Manly – 33° 47′ 50″ South and 151° 17′ 19″ EAST and Shelly – 33° 48′ 2″ South and 151° 17′...

Welcome to a special Sunday edition, with excitement in the air. It definitely doesn’t look like Summer has finished, but the Summer Badge ceremony held in the grounds of Royal Far West, meant we celebrated the end of the qualifying summer swims. A beautiful gorgeous day ahead. 290 swimmers joined us today, including 21 newbies....

What an amazing start to the day.  It’s the opposite of last week’s weather.  Last week I though it was going to be sunny yet it wasn’t and this week I expected to wake up to rain, but the sun was shining.    People often ask me if the water is getting colder in the...

Yes is certainly is!! Beautiful, calm, 22.1c water to greet us this morning for the end of the work week swim. The next few days will be SE swell, so it looks like it’s going to be flat at least until Monday! We’re getting into that time of year where you can feel the seasons...