Simon Cowell has become the first B&Ber to swim his 1500 in the moat around Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the locals thought he was mad:   Can you tick the box for this swim?   The locals don’t swim and fear dragons and ghosts of the dead live under the water, could this have something...

There were 100 swimmers out doing it today! Some started their warm up with a roll in the sand. Others hung around chatting and just being together.   Why togetherness?  Well, I’m indulging a little because it is three years since I began swimming with the B&B mob.  With two dear friends, I arrived wide-eyed...

Today’s swim was much the same as every other swim, warm water, fun small waves, inclusiveness and all with a group of superstars! Lucky us!   A few dusky clouds, but sadly I didn’t see any dusky whalers.   I love these crowd shots, a happy hectic group all preparing for the same fun activity....

Well, what can I say, we are so lucky where we live.  It was amazing in the water today.  Warm temperatures and an array of sea life.  Everywhere you turned there were fish. Any stresses you may have had were forgotten and left behind, even it is was short lived. I arrived to the beach...

Happy Friday morning! What a week we have had, with 4 straight days of beautiful clear water! The surf and weather forecasts are looking good for the next few days, so if you’ve been thinking of swimming and haven’t quite got around to it, get your ass down here because you’re missing out! There has...

All of our swims are special but once in a while everything comes together…The sun rises over Cabbage Tree Bay putting on a fantastic display of colours, the water temperature is warm and ocean calm maybe with a gentle wave and the visibility is beautifully clear with loads of fish swimming amongst us…Us bloggers have...

One of the many things I love about the swim is you never know what is going to be out there each day!!  That thought used to scare me but now it’s what brings me down nearly every morning! There is so much to see! So I put together the below video of photos of...

I was chatting to an Englishman last sunday night who was visiting Australia for the first time and, while visiting some friends on a farm in WA, it started to rain and he said it was the first time he had ever heard people cheer at the sound of rain.  So while it was another...

It was one of those mornings; dark, raining and, of course, Monday.  No amount of willing the fluro digits on the clock to stand still had any effect.  Arriving in Manly the beach front is crawling with blokes in fluro jackets busily dismantling the stands erected for the Surf Carnival.  The rain eases just as...

  Looks a bit wintery this morning! Though thankfully the air temp not yet!   You can’t see from this photo but the waves were big enough for discussions of perhaps halfway! Sometimes it’s not so much the size of the wave as more they speed and strength of them that can make it hard...