https://www.facebook.com/1651645205/videos/pcb.10217501872292649/457647159484857 Is that Ted swimming with a Shovel Nose Ray in Cabbage Tree Bay? Sorry if some of you got excited thinking visibility had suddenly drastically improved! I’m  sharing my photos of our trip to Heron island last week as I know most of you would absolutely love it there and to inspire you to...

Manly turned on the great weather this morning, after what feels like an intense La Niña. The water was flat, sun was warm and Bold & Beautiful fam was out in force today. Many familiar faces and a few new ones (welcome!!!) congregating at the point before we headed to Shelly.     6:30 crew...

Why why why La Niña ?    La Niña teased us for a few days by taking a short break (somewhere, anywhere!)  …. Giving us Rays of sunshine & calm seas & optimism that we’d be back together swimming before too long.  Then just when we thought it was safe …. She sent armies of jellyfish to...

      Wouldn’t recommend the Baulderdash today. Some sizeable waves, with the bommie breaking. Nothing stops the FFF. Surprisingly good conditions. A great little body bashing wave today.       Sarah from Sales is going to have a chat to Scotty from Marketing and see if we can sort out this climate change...

And boy was it dark and gloomy this morning, even after 7am. Numbers of swimmers still down but on the plus side, so was the number of jelly blubbers. The pollution sign didn’t go up till after we got out!   Ian with Julie, visiting swimmer from Melbourne and Di trying to photo bomb!  ...

Colour at 6:23am, forty two minutes before dawn.   A warm 22.6 degrees.   25 drinks express swimmers, led by Capless Dave, bunched together in the dark.   On the return trip I keep in Trooper Simons bubbles through a legion of Jellyfish until he accelerated to get into Murray’s bubbles. Then I fended off...

Here is David (who has arrived to swim from Washington DC and maybe prompted by the blog ) and Matthew from Dee Why, his son.   The conditions were pretty good today so I’m sure they enjoyed the swim I watched the FFS doing their routine  as a non athlete I have watched and heard...

A mix of happy anticipation and mild trepidation quickly turned to joy this morning with a golden greeting. Pollution rating: Unlikely Water colour: army green Debris: nil Visibility – murky but could see fish Water temp: 22.7 Swimmers: 29  Newbies: 2 Newbie Thomas in the middle 2021 Summer Badge Ceremony – Sunday 27th March You’ve done...

These 4 lovely ladies were so excited to be in the blog! They thought I was Lainey, so I let them run with it (kidding) It looks as though we have more rain coming, hopefully not as bad as the recent lot. Here’s the Willyweather rain forecast for Manly Beach for the next few days...

After all these weeks of rain, murky water, wild seas, shark alarms and monstrous jellyfish…it’s fantastic to have clearer water and fish sightings back again! I went for an afternoon swim yesterday and had a great interaction with a Cuttlefish at Shelly beach. It grabbed a large Luderick, rolled it and backed away with it...