Just when you think you’ve had the best swim ever – it does get better! This week has been amazing, and there is still one more day to go! 26c Forecasted today – The sun is high by the time we get to “work”   Speaking of work – Storchy’s Booty Camp is getting bigger...

169 swimmers including 11 newbies came for a swim with us today! It was calm, warmish, clear and sensational! Sunrise was at 5.38am but so worth getting up for! Someone from England said I live a ‘glamorous’ life the other day judging from my Facebook photos.They are all of our swim!!! We must look glamorous...

 ‘Signing in’ and checking the temperature… Greeting the ‘newbies’.  One newbie asked what does it cost to join?  Well..the cost is: ‘being a lot fitter, making lots of friends, feel great every morning and so on!! Playing with the regular visting dogs! Today it’s Turbo and Winston and Nick in the middle! Lost and Found...

 What an amazing swim this morning.  With the water temperature climbing over the last couple of days is was a leisurley paddle in the water this morning, even for the people wearing wetsuits.  My feet didn’t even get cold so that’s a good indicator of the warmer temps. The early sunrise and warmer temps are...

No, not that blue! The mighty blue of Dublin, Ireland!!! Our blues won arguably the biggest sporting event of the year in Ireland last night beating Mayo to win the Sam Maguire cup in Gaelic Football. The county has gone crazy! Congrats to the boys and commiserations to the green and red army of the...

 What an amazing start to the day. Clear blue skies and clearer waters. If you are not managing to get up to see the sunrise these days here is a shot this morning.  Only two more weeks to go before daylight savings then we can swim morning and night. 😉 Just a reminder about meeting...

Friday is here after an “interesting” week… the Ocean has settled a bit and we’re back to sunny mornings and temps in the mid 20s. This is the scene at 5:47am…       Most of the brown foam is gone and it’s nice and warm as we gather in our favourite spot.    ...

It was all happening at Manly early this morning. There were surfers, joggers, paddlers, dog walkers, boxers…and a pod of 106 pink capped swimmers all getting their dose of Vitamin Sea, work out, circulation boost and endorphin release :-)!! Our swim must tick all the boxes! Quite a few early swimmers today. Here are the...

The weather made a huge turn around today with a warm start to the morning. While the air was warm the surf still felt a little cold to me. Maybe I am just reclimatizing.  The wild surf yesterday has kept some swimmers away with only 83 of us this morning.  It was a challenging swim,...