UPDATES 1. Air is 10º (Rain didn’t quite arrive) 2. John Kelly was guest chalker over weekend 3. There’s a temporary plunge pool next to ramp 4. There are three more weeks of Winter              

  Be my ritual, Be my one desire Be my light be my pure delight, Be my purifier         6.30am we celebrate a rise of 2 degrees in the temp. Outside and Inside. Leave your wetsuits at home. Trooper arrives and leaves in his skin-tight wetsuit. Fast in the water but the...

As Di said,  what a difference a day makes,  not that I swam yesterday but today was pretty special albeit pretty cold!   With the temperature at 15.6C it was handy that we could walk almost to the point,  calm seas and no wind made it almost bearable. Might be time to get out the...

  Well, not in Manly but in some parts of the world winter swims are truly arctic. Today was a balmy 16.3 degrees (thanks as always Guy). After being out of the water for a week, I felt like I was heading in for an arctic swim this morning… Before the ‘point express’ could help me...

I find that swimming is an then  activity to do while examining your thinking. Before I go to the swim I would need to do wordle. Then I heard of Worldle. And try that. Then I heard of Heardle and Heardle decades (70s is my best) and try to do that. Then I think I...

G’day Today (like most days) is about finding the fabulous. It started well with this scene to greet us at CTB. Air was cool, sun was fabulous and the water temperature fresh.   Don’t be fooled by this calm scene. I madly followed Georgina, Fi and  Sandy into a huge set that came from no...

It was a mixed bag of weather and conditions this morning. The temperature is still up at 17.3, viz is still down though surprisingly we saw a dusky(or was it a PJ?) out from Shelley. The signs going up (post swim) were an indication of conditions. I asked the 6.30 for some honest comments as...

Maybe it is time to trot out the reasons why it is good  to swim in cold water. Here are the reasons I randomly picked from the google search I found. These matters are only generally correct as I particularly noted – with some dissatisfaction – in point 5. But point 4 does explain why...

Wednesday 20th July  – Bonnie Tsui, in her book “why we swim” muses ““Swimming is a way for us to remember how to play.”   She also Suggests “a giddiness to being in that water”….  “It connects with a playfulness that we forget about as adults”.  One things for sure, the cameraderie of the b&b...

I was pleasantly surprised this morning as it wasn’t raining,  the sea was relatively calm, viz has improved and the grey skies were atmospheric.   “Chalk Guy” Guy and his buddies indicated that the water was warmer, up quite a bit from previous days,  but I can’t say I noticed going in, although there were...