Lovely atmosphere down at the swim today. Sally Stobo’s birthday so a big turn out from ‘The Mermaids’! A beautiful swim with calmer conditions, avoidable Jellies and that nasty rip has gone! It’s still pretty dark at 6.30am… 22 degrees in the water and around 19 out. Pilates and Yoga sessions were in full force...

Hey guys   I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. The water was a really lovely 22.6, but really very murky and bumpy.  In a moment of sheer stupidity & not paying attention, I swam straight onto the rocks this morning – twice. Needless to say, I’m covered in scrapes & scratches 😢   It...

      Did you know that wearing green on St Patricks Day makes you invisible to the iritating pinching leprechauns. I swam out in the dark in green sluggos hoping it worked on Jellyfish as well. Not a jelly did I see! Didn’t stop me running smack bang into Passage Rock, I’m sure it...

  6:26 This time of year brings later sunrises which means a darker start for the 6:30 swimmers. The countdown is on for changing the clocks.  There was a bit of fog in the air which made for an interesting view of the sun as it rose between my first and second laps and as...

Howzit and Siyabona It’s been a while apologies for missing a few I’m sure you’ve missed the Safferisms 🙂 This week has seen a strong rip in our corner. It wasn’t all a ripping good time as swimmers battled against it coming in. Another thanks to those who helped our dear Bin in when she...

It felt like an autumn morning, being a bit cooler and the rain held off but the rip was roaring, even more so than yesterday. It looked fairly calm but you needed to swim very wide to get back in, although we did watch some who got in after looking like they weren’t moving for...

The caring Fingerbone looked out for Storm boy in the movie. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IKidbcMzxOc Likewise Birthday Boy James (Aka Fingerbone looks out for other swimmers in the Drinks Express) Screenshot BTW Simon the finger pointer in the above photo coined the “Fingerbone “ nickname. Brett Ali & Patrick swam before sunrise.   Likewise Bootie Campers did their...

  What a man, what a mightly fine man!       Canadian Matt blames his Garmin for a 1.22/100m split yesterday. Snoopy has pulled out the fins and word on the street he pushed Jon all the way today on the Express train.     My favourite day of the week. Friday. Blocky and...

Wednesday 8th March – a day to celebrate women, and what women want – and if you haven’t seen the film of the same name, starring our own “Love Songs” – you should!  Not only is it a brilliant movie with the necessary elements of a compelling story, laughter and tears and cringe moments; it...

Hey guys I wish I could say Happy Monday, but unfortunately the swim conditions this morning made me not so happy ☹️   I do enjoy big surf, but combined with a wall of jellies around the bower, dirty brown sludge in a similar location, and a news presenter there to report on a potential...