I thought I would get up nice and early this morning and see what all this boulderdash stuff was about. Im still fairly new to the group and was a little apprehensive about swimming so far out to be honest, with a lot less “Chum” to surround me. The shutting down of the beaches yesterday...

    Today’s stats: Total Shelly swimmers: 105 New swimmers: 4 Bolderdashers: 4  Doublers: 4 2013 is the Chinese Year of the Water Snake –  “This is a water year”   What’s your New Year’s Resolution….  LOTS OF LOVE AND KISSES!!   New Year’s Day gathering at South Steyne – a beautiful day!!   Welcome...

223 Bold and Beautifulicious swimmers 2012 what an AMAZING, FANTASTIC year with Bold and Beautiful! And …another wonderful start to the day – DESPITE the title of this blog – it was a lovely swim! Well for myself, Fi, Anna, Thomas and John S…As we headed north instead of going to Shelly – too many blue...

Date: Sunday: 30th December 2012 Today’s stats: Regular shelly swimmers: 218 New swimmers: 28 Bolderdashers: 7 Double lappers: 19 Blog Tarts: 0 Stingers: 0 My last blog for 2012! Where does the time go? This morning was flat, warm and unstingy (for most people) and it was busy, busy busy. Ive been B&B swimming for...

More than 222 happy and fearless Bold and Beautiful swimmers didn’t even give a thought to marine stingers this morning … and this is why: – Over 222 Swimmers! – 31 for the 6k! – 13 new swimmers! – 1 for the Bolderdash Nice, warm and flat… just like English beer.. (if you like that...

What a buzz! Summer’s arrived well and truly, many of us are holidaying right here in Paradiso del Manlio, and there aint no better way to start the day than to swim in the ocean. Maybe that’s why 285 (!!!) good people turned up to swim with the B&B today. Everyone was 100 per cent relaxed. Except for...

Well over 270 Bold & Beautiful swimmers swam across Cabbage Tree Bay and back on the most beautiful summer’s day… Jules Isbill should be feeling very proud  as this amazing swim group enjoyed it’s 4th birthday today! We are on 3782 swimmers and could make 4,000 by New Years Day! 5 Bolderdashers. 12 Doubles. 19.8...

111 Swimmers turned up today!! Looks a bit grey but the waves were smaller so pretty much everyone was able to go in from the beach…. Sarah mucking about with Rainer/Lips who definitely turned up today – see proof below! Jenny Menzies toe from yesterday – kicking some butt no doubt trying to get up...

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! Firstly I must apologise for the lateness and standard of this blog, I got carried away with the lovely swim, lovely breakfast and then home for even lovelier Bucks Fizz! (also sorry for the lack of Chrismassy decoration but I’m not that technologically advanced, especially today!) Lets just get straight into it so...

Grab yourselves a nice warm glass of Mulled wine, sit yourself down beside the fire and enjoying the destruction of a classic Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore….. Twas the last swim before Christmas  – By Robster the Blogster Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Manly Not a creature was stirring, not even...