Today’s title comes courtesy of the weather bureau.  In that hazy realm somewhere between asleep and awake, the radio’s surf report was telling me that the surf conditions were considered big and dangerous or large and powerful.  It’s Tuesday; blog day so I am committed to turning up – no matter the conditions!! A parking...

A perfect morning for swimming and surfing with a gentle off shore breeze and a building swell. Manly was in full swing this morning with boot campers on the beach, joggers on the stairs, swimmers in the water, surfers in the swell, walkers on the promenade and watchers at the coffee shops. The ocean has...

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!! There were numerous sightings of a Dolphin this morning from Midge and Robin after 6am and the whole drinks express. When we got to Shelly with the 7am mob there was only one thing being said, “Did you see the dolphin?” So Sophie, Nick & I jumped the gun and headed for the Bower...

The day started off looking very grim as I was heading down from my place in Allambie Heights.  Being at such a high altitude in the moutains we were high in the clouds this morning.  I was thinking it was going to be a dull day at the beach and then alas the sun emerges...

Sydney area: Cloudy. Scattered showers. Isolated thunderstorms, possibly severe. Winds north to northeasterly 25 to 35 km/h becoming light in the late evening. One of those days where you just need to HTFU and get wet before you get wet… know what I mean?   All the yellow bits are thunderstorms.. 🙂   Everyone else...

The swimming part is only one of the reasons I love this amazing daily drama. Mostly I do it so regularly because of the quirky and kind, weird and wonderful, friendly and fearless, bold and beautiful creatures and characters we meet before, after and during the swim! Here some of our swimmers get up close...

141 Bold and Beautiful swimmers this morning including 4 newbies….3 of which were from Dr John’s Harem of Women! 😉  Temp was 20.2 Before I get on with the blog can I make a suggestion regarding all your gear!! Please put your name inside EVERYTHING! Even your caps!!   Every morning quite a bit is...

In case you haven’t noticed, there has been a bit of rain about.  This may have been the reason there were a total of just 65 B&B swimmers from all of today’s swims between 6am and 7am.  This did make the 7am an intimate affair! While some were hanging around ticking the attendance sheet, chatting,...

Just 39 swimmers braved the elements this morning with rain and big seas. I planned to do the Balderdash and get some photos but the other early morning swimmer only had time for a Shelly swim, so I had 2 options, either swim it alone or join Storchy’s boot camp.  After watching the sets for...

Over 99 swimmers eventually came down to swim this morning. This included approx 6 swimmers who completed the 3km Bolderdash return swim to Queenscliff. If you have never “done a Bolderdash ” this  picture from Richard shows the handy work of our resident B&B artist who recently perfomed open heart surgey on the Queens cliff with a...