Grey Nurse shark was around yesterday. Today it wasn’t so calm or clear but was still a lovely swim after the rain! The visibility has been fantastic the last week and it’s been exciting hearing reports of Turtle, Cuttlefish and Grey Nurse sightings. Some people even saw Cow Nose Rays a few days ago....

Mauricio’s close encounters. Screenshot Screenshot   “Rio” no, Nth Steyne.   Finals today & Tuesday.     Stay safe, enjoy Simon     B&B monthly dinner – Tuesday 10th May 2022  The speaker at our next monthly dinner, to be held on Tuesday May 10th at Bluewater Café at 6.30 pm, will be one of our swimmers, Ranya Alkadamani. Ranya,...

Underneath the city lights, there is a world few know about. Where rules don’t apply. We emerge from our rabbit holes, a grey dark sky. But knowing that under water, clarity will come. The night before keeps echoing back. A little bit of naughty is a little bit nice. Felecity tells of erotic bubbles at...

Someone told me long ago. There’s a calm before the storm. I know. Today I know. 20m+ viz. A plethora of marine life. Multiple turtles. A French accent off the shed points us towards 4 cuttlefish. Daphne is bragging about a horse size Cephalopoda. Andy laments that he didn’t actually see anything, never does.  ...

Wednesday 18th may    What a wildly wonderfully windless waveless Wednesday!  Great for swimming , not so much for the surf comp at north Steyne today …  the silence, calm & serenity as we entered the water moments after “drinks express” , watching the sun rise and the moon set was breathtakingly beautiful…  today felt...

There’s not a lot to say about today as it was pretty much as good as it gets, unless you love the wild surf.   The wall was busier than it has been in ages, word has spread of good conditions!   Water temp still nice at 20.3, viz good, no jellies, saw a cuttlefish...

Conditions perfect this morning          

Sits a young man staring at the surf, A tribal sacrifice made to the earth. Pitch Report: Sunday. The swell has gone. No sightings of our orange stinging friends. 2 duelling cuttlefish sighted off the pool, in real close. Camouflaged. Big old grizzy things. Just awesome. Guy forgot something, saw him back about 8am, thermometer?...

Sydney, nights are warm. Daytime telly, blue rinse dawn. Early swimmers Sarah & Jon (the Sales team) make it back from their 6am dark sojourn up north, missing a headlight and reporting some tumbles in the surf. No jellies.   Surfing and Jellies don’t mix. The beach is scattered with them. Reports that the ferry...

If you read yesterday’s blog and came down today in the hope of experiencing the same stunning conditions, you would have been mildly disappointed. The Easterly wind was strong, the waves ‘face slapping’ (in the words of Amanda Grant), visibility ‘so-so’, swimmer numbers down and lots of water movement. (Thanks to Lainey who took this...