59 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Stunning conditions this morning, beautiful skies and flat, clearing water… Jan Beacham even saw a fish 🙂 There were a few little stingy things dispersed throughout just to keep us on our toes… I must confess they do make you feel like you’d like to walk on water on...

58 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. ‘Our Manly’ is back, as are our numbers 🙂 Beautiful conditions this morning, a tiny little wave, a flat swim to Shelly and back, lots of blue sky and a lovely visible sun 🙂 Coming in was a little entertaining though as there was a sand bank not far...

32 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. There was a slight delay to the start of the swim this morning as Michael Christie and I slept through the alarm and didn’t wake up until 6.50am, yikes – a quick sprint to swimming saw us arrive just in the nick of time with a dutiful queue waiting...

50 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Big, beautiful rolling waves coming in to Manly this morning with lots of surfers enjoying them too. Of particular note this morning though was the fact that there was something warm and round in the sky… I think someone said it was the sun ! A few swimmers went...

41 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. What a lovely swim this morning the surf was nothing short of wild ! First photo is of Michael Christie all rugged up, taking the water temperature for us first thing 🙂 By far the majority of us swam from and back to half way beach this morning which...

34 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Cae Toleman and Iain McGregor are the heroes of the morning having completed the bonus early lap at 6.20am. The waves were large and the rip was pumping ! As you can see from today’s photo some people went in through the waves and the rest of us sensible...

21 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. It might have been wetter out than in today but it was a lovely swim. The conditions were lovely, flat and relatively warm this morning which was a nice surprise !!! 🙂 Aelwyn Norton was radiant and full of smiles at Shelly Beach this morning, in fact to quote...

21 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Good to see equality prevailed this morning as Iain McGregor & Mechelle Hare both completed the bonus early lap in the serious darkness. Despite Iain sending me a text at 6.20am Michael and I managed to resist the temptation, thanks though mate 😉 The first photo, courtesy of Stephen...

58 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. 5 people did a bonus early swim this morning; Aelwyn Norton, David Adams, Iain McGregor, James Goins & Michael Christie, thanks for making sure there was a female presence this morning Aelwyn 😉 Well I reckon this morning was the first ice-cream headache of the season, it was certainly...

40 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Beautiful flat conditions this morning, with a colorful sunrise. So many specacular photos courtesy of James Goins this morning, in fact sooo many we had to run 8 of them as I couldnt possibly cull them, it was just too hard to choose and was further complicated by the...