Over 94 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Magnificent swim for Mothers Day today !! Beautiful conditions both in and out of the water. Peter Bowes and Alison Christie saw a huge Numbfish. Madlen Altstaedt saw a Grouper eating an Octopus now that has to be a first – how amazing !! Greg McDonagh put together packs...

97 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Super lovely swim this morning. The temperature is gradually dropping but it is still very comfortable 🙂 Very pleasant indeed; calm, comfy and clear. How about bringing your Mum’s down for a swim or if that’s too daunting maybe coffee / brekkie with us tomorrow for Mother’s Day.  I’m...

67 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A beautifully, beautifully, stunning morning with flat, warm water and 33 dusky whaler sharks !!! There must be a shark convention at Manly this morning 🙂 Great photo today courtesy of James Goins. Oh no – Maxine told me it was Lee Coopers birthday this morning and I forgot to...

Over 61 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. ‘Our’ Manly’s back! It was absolutely beautiful this morning and the viz is coming back :-). We saw two huge blue groupers on the point and over 10 sharks 🙂 Happy birthday to Mary-Anne Eades today 🙂 John Bond lost his blue backpack, cap, goggles and shoes this morning....

Over 53 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. The conditions are back to lovely again 🙂 There were some lovely waves and all swimmers swam in and out through the surf. We’re back to normal – yippee 🙂 Lesley Coulter saved some fish today as she pulled a plastic bag out of the ocean, but then Ali...

Over 31 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Huge seas today. It certainly makes for spectacular watching ! We have lost a few swimmers to their surfboards as they are making the most of these conditions whilst I think a few others maybe motivated to stay in bed… All bar two people (Chris Kiely and ??) went...

Over 48 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Huge surf this morning. The swimmers safely negotiated the waves and the surfers on their way out past the point. 6 of us joined in from half way beach. The swim across to Shelly Beach was very swurly indeed. The brave half way contingent were accompanied by a few...

Over 73 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Big waves as we swam out and an undulating swim across to Shelly and back followed by ultra big waves to take us back to shore. For some swimmers it was not without a dump or two first… As for the visibility, uhmm what visibility !? Of course it...

Over 59 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Nice waves with a good rip for us to use to get out 🙂 The swim was undulating but the rain stayed away and the sun popped out so it was lovely. I think it might have been the best part of the day. It was a noticeable male...

Over 42 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Whatever happened to lake Manly ?? Instead we have Surf Beach Shelly !! There were some decent waves out there this morning, we lost Michel and Kris amongst others i’m sure to the surf board this morning…. A few of us remained Bold & Beautiful and went to and...