60 Bold & Beautiful swimmers Lots of sun and a nice warm wind to wake up to, beautiful ! It’s created a bit of a swell, but doesn’t appear to have done much for the water temp… I don’t think that’s going to stop them getting wet Matt !? It’s beautiful once you’re in though. ...

74 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers! Another lovely morning – the warmer air temp makes a difference!   Don’t get jealous Lucy, we found Ted (same height) for Brad to cuddle! 🙂 …hugs all around…probably the ‘only’ sport where hugging is part of the experience and you pretty much don’t mind who it is – especially...

92 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers It doesn’t get any better than this! (well a bit… in summer)…. The best way to arrive!   A lot of early lappers today … A rare 1 metre gap between Brad-ucy… Greg looks pleased! 😀     Looking good Cathie!!   Other goings on in the water….   One...

A cozy 52 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers Lovely and flat and still and looking so welcoming!   Early lappers just arriving back…   Not 1 BUT 2 super-cute babies today – Lilou and  Brigitte!! I wonder what they were thinking? 😀 The anticipated “dread” walk into the cold water!! But today was so lovely and...

95 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers, mostly dad’s! Picture below is deceiving – it was ffffreeezing!! Sea temp was 14.5!! Michael Christie you missed it!!  Just kidding it was 15.8… (air temp a cooool 8 degrees) Conditions were lovely – and set to continue for a few days – by Thurs it should be flat seas...

96 Bold & Beautiful swimmers ~8 swimmers enjoyed an early dawn swim, some up to Queensie and some into Shelly, all back in time to form a human archway for Collie to run through as he took he dive towards France.  Collie is heading off on Wednesday to Dover, to climatise for a couple of...

101 Bold & Beautiful swimmers celebrate the last day of 2012 winter swimming – yippee !! As predicted the sea was calm, peaceful and very inviting. With people excited to be celebrating the last day of winter But perceptions can be deceiving How cold was it !?   Blooming cold !!  15.2 degrees kind of...

77 Bold & Beautiful swimmers Michael battled the white water rapids to take the water temperature for us this morning 😉 It’s the last day of winter tomorrow – YEH !!! and the surf and swell is going to be significantly less than today 🙂   Brother and Sister, Terry and Jenny, along with Bev...

100 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers!!! That’s 100 people swimming – can you believe it!! I am sure our numbers have doubled since last year??  100 people swimming was a big day in the Summer on a WEEKEND!   186 have now qualified for their Winter Badge! Winter Badge Ceremony will be held at Whitewater with...

101 Bold & Beautiful swimmers were tickled pink to find the water has warmed up and there were no stingy things out there with us for this morning’s magical swim. Yeh, a perfect morning for Julia to make her come back post baby Lucas 🙂       Luitz is pretty happy to be back...