As many of you are aware, our dear friend and most senior swimmer, Bruce Paterson, sadly passed away yesterday.           Bruce has been swimming with B&B since our very beginning, three and a half years ago.  Bruce loved B&B, not only for the swimming but like all of us, for the...

33 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. As happy as always, enjoying beautiful water this morning. What a difference a day makes… The seas have settled down nicely leaving us with a lovely wave that everyone went out through today.         With a calm swim through the bay to follow.     Anyone would...

31 adventurous Bold & Beautiful swimmers enjoyed a free rush of adrenaline this morning. With water moving around all over the place, an absolutely massive swell and waves breaking everywhere – it’s simply epic out there !         2 experienced surf swimmers, Clive and Fiona, swam from the beach this morning, plus...

Over 63 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. The spectacular winter sunrises are in full swing and Gaetan and James have both captured this morning’s beautifully for us.  What a treat to wake up to this every morning 🙂 Check out these three lovely, dramatic photos courtesy of Gaetan.       Plus these eight courtesy of...

60 Bold & Beautiful swimmers There’s a nice little wave rolling in to Manly this morning, but it seems it’s not only the sea that’s pumping… 😉       Welcome back to Derek Martin who is very happy to be visiting us for 2 days, back from NZ. A lovely array of colours on...

77 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Another wet and grey ole day when you might as well swim ‘cos you’re going to get wet whether you like it or not. Plus it is lovely swimming in the rain, it kinda has a beautiful mystical feeling to it.     Not so good for photographs though… can...

127 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A lovely little wave amonst the grey skies to kick start this morning’s swim.         into the beauiful calm waters across the bay with an ocean covering of duskies.     It seems there was plenty of discussion about their size at Shelly… 😉 and varying opinions...

Over 105 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. First day of winter swimming today and it certainly got the thumbs up !! In fact it was bloody lovely 🙂  With a fantastic turnout of swimmers all keen to get their first qualifying winter swim under their cossies. Lots of swimmers are still enjoying a couple of extra...

Over 60 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. It seems that the suit is the new clothing of choice to arrive to swimming in these days and that’s not the wet variety either… Another beautiful array of morning colours as we started our swim today in even warmer water 🙂     Some more gorgeous photos taken...

Over 80 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Including 9 swimmers who also enjoyed a bonus early lap as you can from Gaetan’s lovely early photos in which as has also captured the beautiful colours of the changing dawn sky.             Meanwhile however, some things never change, like our early morning cuddles...