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...

One of many topics of conversation this morning was alarm or natural wakeup? Regardless of what wakes you up, a B&B swim sends a lot of us into the day with the much loved buzz. Great to see the water is returning to it’s beautiful colour and visibility.   The big news is the ocean...

  North Steyne smells bad. Like smelling salts, really gets up your nose, but instead of waking up, it knocks you cold. more pipe exposed than usual. Anti corrosive paint that hasn’t corroded yet is very slippery. Peeling back the layers. Lip syncing to your favourite song. A familiar morning routine. But it doesn’t flow...

Wednesday 16th March….   Some brave souls have started venturing into the water ….  Not me though!    However a cute little penguin has been frolicking in the vicinity of the bower steps !  despite laineys eternal optimism and positivity (which we all love!) in posting enticing morning condition reports (sorry lainey..  not quite convincing...

I’m heading back from Melbourne this morning so using my reporters on the ground to fill me in.  I did manage a few swims in western port bay which was clean, cool and critterless, a nice change from current conditions in Sydney! Thanks Lainey for the pics.   Michele riding a wave back to shore....

    Bootycamp got wet but also took time to collect rubbish.   The Doctor said , “the water turned my white swimmers brown”. The Trooper said the water at Shelly was NOT clear.   Linda has suspended her ocean Goodswim school  until further notice.         Shaun Veena & Martin took the...