The westerly wind is blowing down the Corso but down in the south end of Manly it is nice a protected. Water is clear again today and slightly cooler. Lots of whales about yesterday, there were reports of some great breaching exhibitions just off the Shelley car park. So if everybody could try making deep...

Breathtaking both the sunrise and the first step into the water 🙂 Lovely morning, with swell from the South Cabbage Tree Bay was relatively calm this morning, the Westerly wind had a lot of us thanking Hugh Bradner for inventing the wetsuit. Swim started at 6:20 this morning for a few of us the water...

64 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A lovely swim this morning, the water temperature might have dropped but it was sooo clear, it really was picture perfect. Lots of fish around but no dusky whaler sightings, maybe they have gone searching for the warmer water… You can tell it’s school holidays, ‘the originals’ are back...

56 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Spectacular sunrise this morning, oh my gosh you’ve gotta love winter mornings. Absolutely superb photos from Gaetan Guilhon and James Goins, wow wow wow I just couldn’t choose which ones to use, they were all so good I just had to include them all, thanks guys ! A lovely...

65 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Another stunning day in paradise, with beautiful water and clear blue skies. The water was ever so slightly cloudy compared to the pristine waters that we have been totally spoilt with lately. James Goins didn’t swim today, he took some fabulous photos from land for us instead, an example...

92 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Lovely conditions again today, beautiful blue skies with the sun shining through the surface of the lovely clear water making it absolutely magnificent ! Lots of stingarees, red morwongs, leather jackets, yellowtail scad, kingfish, huge bright blue groupers and a 3 barred porcupine fish 🙂 Over 20 swimmers, mostly...

70 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers A sensational swim this morning, and great photos courtesy of James Goins all with a lovely grey kinda blue theme throughout. The water was clear, flat and beautiful with lots of blue groupers. A little wave as we left Shelly Beach and Peter Graham said the water was wet…...

42 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A great swim with only a little bit of chop and no Jimbles – yeh !! 🙂 Great visibility and Gaetan Guilhon got to swim nearly all the way to Shelly Beach with a cuttlefish – beautiful, just love cuttlefish, which we only get to see in the winter...

70 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A little cloud and chop this morning so sadly no stunning sunrise, but a lovely swim with virtually no Jimbles 🙂 The water is still beautifully clear and warm, gotta love winter swimming ! Iain McGregor, Nick The Brick and Stephen Coulter did an extra lap in the dark...

55 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Another beautiful swim today, the water has very kindly warmed up and the Jimbles have significantly reduced 🙂 Still crystal clear and packed full of marine life ! Lots of beautiful photos today courtesy of Gaetan Guilhon and James Goins, gotta love our resident photographers and cinematographers, thanks heaps...