0 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers. 0 1st-timers “Sometimes the sea doesn’t want you” – Enzo Molinari (The Big Blue) Gaetan, Linda, Simon and Jane were bold enough to go down but they made a Edie decision and decided to wait for tomorrow to swim. Big stormy messy sea. Anna had a great coffee yesterday 🙂...

25 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers. 1 1st-timers Sttinging rain not jellyfish confronted the Bold 25 who swam in the heaviest rain we can remember encountering. Accompanied by waves, wind, swell and smell at Shelley, there was something for everybody. Water Temperature 22.2’C Sunrise: 6:56 Sunset: 19:12 Low Tide: 14:58 High Tide: 8:36

51 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers. 4 1st-timers It was beautiful lake Manly today. The 6km is still on tomorrow if anyone is keen, as normal continue on after the 7am Shelly swim. Thanks Linda and Gaetan for updates – blogger is in mooland. Water Temperature 22.9’C Sunrise: 6:55 Sunset: 19:13 Low Tide: 14:15 High Tide:...

32 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers. 2 Newbies It was so warm, comfortable and with all the fish in the water it felt very dreamy. It was great to be in the water this morning. The big schools of fish in the water were yellowtail. Almost all the bluey’s were out the water and on the beach 🙂...

46 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers. 7 Newbies Another lovely morning, the timing of the sunrise just before the swim is perfect. There were still a few stingers in the water. Good news is that Julie’s Dad is doing well. Water Temperature 22.9’C Sunrise: 6:54 Sunset: 19:12 Low Tide: 12:43 High Tide: 6:00

39 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers and 1 newbie. Lovely morning, some nice glassy waves and the duskies were are cruising Shelley beach. Madeline described the jelly’s floating around as “Vertical Zeppelin’s”, there were also some stingy plankton patches and even more “my sting is bigger than yours” 🙂 Water Temperature 23.2’C Sunrise: 6:53 Sunset: 19:14...

35 Bold and Beautiful Swimmers. Water Temperature 23’C Sunrise: 6:52 Sunset: 19:15 Low Tide: 10:45 High Tide: 16:42 Sunny Monday – lovely blue sky, the water was a bit murky but no stingers and lots of fish. Julie and Mike left for the UK late last night, Julie’s Dad is not well. Julie we are...

Over 81 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A reasonable surf this morning followed by some bluies and Jimbles off the point :-(. Some of the boys decided to go north to avoi the stingers but they all got stung. Only a couple of the Shelly swimmers got stung – phew. Apart from a few stingers it...

Over 139 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. What a fantastic turnout this morning, our second ever largest turnout outside of our special Australia Day Swims, and it’s Autumn… 🙂 There was a decent surf to start us off on a lovely swim.  Clear water, lots of fish; flathead, sting rays and the largest number of the...

Over 84 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. The sea was lovely and calm this morning with our regular friends out to accompany us: 4 of the healthy dusky whalers, lovely large blue groupers, batfish, catfish, stingrays, fiddler rays to name only a few. A message below from Jane Stevenson, our resident B&B vet and fish namer...