The Festival of Julie continues this weekend with 144 party goers turning up in conditions we’ve grown to love this week! At least the washing machine has moved on from it’s “death and destruction” cycle, to more of a “winter touch up” mode…. Everybody’s in their party outfits….     Yeh thanks for bringing the...

The excitement carries on! Yesterday, many were the swimmers happy to see our swim squad founder on her first day back swimming with us, if only for four days before she goes back to her medical textbooks waiting impatiently for her in WA. More people were reunited with Julie this morning, including myself. We picked...

Jules Isbill, the founder of the Bold and Beautiful, and the driving force behind  this amazing, popular and successful group, joined us today after 5 months spent studying medicine in Perth. This daily drama is improving the quality of so many lives and we have Jules to thank for that. She is just a bit...

Glorious smiles welcomed the 68 brave B&B swimmers this morning. How could you feel anything other than inspired when greeted by this mob as we gather in our little corner of Manly. Rain looms on the horizon, but the cloud cover blankets us with a relatively warm 14 degrees as we commence the ritual disrobing for...

 The big waves are BACK!! A book light was donated by John Paul for the oldies to sign in! 😉 Yes most of us decided to go to half way!! It was still a beautiful sunrise Pink Tarts! On the way to half way! Even half way was getting pounded… It looked safe to go...

The morning news told us there was wild weather about.  Road closures, flooding, disrupted transport (frankly when isn’t transport disrupted?), king tides and dangerous surf! Just the sort of day you will find the intrepid B&B mob out for a swim. Actually, a modest 53 swimmers took the plunge today.  It was a real winter...

Here’s Sam. Today was his first swim with the aptly and appropriately named swim squad the Bold & Beautiful. Welcome Sam, I’m sure you’ll get used to our mixed bag of personalities soon. You met 154 of us this morning but there’s plenty more. Sam, you have started one of the most important chapters of...

 We must be having record numbers of Winter swimmers at the moment, a lot of us spurred on by the challenge of doing 20 swims in Winter and getting our Winter badge! 106 bold swimmers rocked up today on a cold, gloomy morning. Rusty is excited to be swimming, ‘Get out of bed and join...