There’s certainly a chill in the air and the winter gear is reappearing but it seems to be turning into a gorgeous day.   Temperature is still OK but it’s the cold air when you bring your arms out of the water that cools you down. Viz still isn’t great, with that milky feel so...

Siyabona Apologies the next few blogs from me will be from pastures afresh. A few pics of our Saffer trip which we absolutely loved especially seeing my family and old friends. First the call of the wild and wonderful Kruger ( I can’t seem to right some of these images ) Bush babies in 2...

Hey guys   Happy Monday!   While the air was fresh, the sun was out so it was a beautiful way to start the week! The water was 19.6, but definitely felt colder as the temp starts to drop.  The water was a little sharky, and while I saw some fish & got a few...

  Magic not just in Cabbage Tree Bay, but also in Tonga. In Tonga each year humpback whales travel to the warm waters(24degC) to mate, give birth & raise their young. Whales arrive mid-June staying until mid-November. Manly locals Alice & David Edgar enthralled us at last night’s BnB’s evening talk with their experiences of...

Live your best life and enjoy each day. The sea brings new conditions to enjoy each day but today it was superb – warm, a bit wave but not much, good visibility and swimmers in every direction. Bold and beautiful smiling swimmers. AND I saw some duskies – two near the point but others saw...

  Water:     21.9º Vis:         Exquisite Found:    Fitbit (by Allister Lugsdin) – See whiteboard crew tomorrow Sharks:    Heaps                       Tuesday Night Talk. This month’s talk, SWIMMING WITH WHALES Husband and wife team Alice and David Edgar are Manly locals with a love of marine mammals and whales...

After quite a week last week with big surf and strong rips, it was lovely to come down this morning and actually swim from Manly. The temperature was up on yesterday at 21.3c but numbers of people were way down so it was pretty quiet in the bay.   A gorgeous, sunny morning but air...

Happy Monday swimmers ☺️ A fresh morning and huge surf today! Water was quite warm once you got in, at 20.4. I swam out to the point and got absolutely smashed by a huge wave and subsequent undertow that scared the sh!t out of me. And then Genevieve and I decided that the waves looked...

Don’t mess with the Zohan! Trooper rants ‘no dilly dallying around here’ and pushes us all to our limits on another day on the sand and in the surf.   A standard dragon boat typically consists of 22 team members: 20 paddlers, 1 drummer and 1 steerer. Like a well oiled team our FFF all...

G’day Yesterday the spirit of the Anzacs was amongst us.  If you haven’t done the pre dawn (4.25) Manly service on the Corso, do yourself a favour and attend next year, it’s very moving. To see so many people attend the BnB service at 7 am was very ‘ lekker ‘ ( the wonderful Afrikaan...