As the occasional fill-in blogger for B&B, I’m familiar with rule #1 in the B&B blogging manual: Avoid politics, religion, and sexual references. Obviously, today had to be all about politics. I apologize in advance for the lack of religious or sexual references and do refer to Monday’s blog instead. DISCLAIMER: If you haven’t been...

This week has seen fantastic weather for the start of Spring, with sunrises like these who’s gonna argue…   The water has been a little murky however, looking more like fish soup from the Thai takeaway as a result of the NE  and E swells that have persisted every couple of days…   Despite the...

109 Bold and Beautiful swimmers on this glorious morning, many of whom were eager to practise the swimming tips given by Sarah Ann at the dinner on Tuesday. Hence the title for today’s blog! (Swim tips are in pink!) There was  a Summery feel to the day with the temp forecast at 26C ! For...

  Last nights BnB monthly dinner was a great success! Sarah Ann Evans, our official Pacific Jules swimming coach, gave a talk on swimming which was very interesting! We packed out Bluewater!  (If you enjoyed yourself at Bluewater please CLICK HERE to add a comment or like 🙂 Stephen was awarded his 1000km badge! You can find out...

Another beautiful sunrise in Mantown with a 2ft ESE swell promising lake like conditions… This was the mood walking down to the B&B Pavilion….     Once there it was another story – where Bollywood had finally caught up with us, and really the only question now is: What took it so long??    ...

101 Bold and Beautiful swimmers groaned with dissapointment when they heard the regular Monday blogger was back! Thanks to Joe, Mary and Lesbutt for covering me while I was off in volunteering in the slums building schools and orphanages… Well it was a nice start to the week with temps rising and sun shining  ...

For your Diary: The Bold and Beautiful Monthly Dinner IS NOW FULL – AND SO IS THE WAIT LIST! Please email Ian Forster urgently if you can’t go on ugoboy@optusnet.com.au ****** Charity Events: Fred Hollows Foundation James Pittar, the blind marathon swimmer who has tackled some of the world’s roughest oceans, will be swimming off...

We have finally come to the end of another winter and for some, there first winter with the   B&B Swim Squad.   We have had a few really cool days in the water, but all in all it wasn’t too bad.   Some may disagree.   We have been really fortunate this year having...

Before We Start! As you know there is a Federal Election on next week. Australia’s Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has announced that he will suspend and review Australia’s new marine parks if elected Prime Minister on September 7. He wouldn’t do this just days out from an election unless he thought there were votes in...

As  I sit in Bluewater Cafe going through the photos of this morning’s absolutely magical swim with other swimmers we try and think of a title to sum it up for the blog. Everything was just so perfect this Thursday morning on one of the last days of Winter… The calm, crystal clear water, the...