Due to covid restrictions it seems we are all trying to mix things up to avoid overcrowding, such as times, starting points and even those who are swimming elsewhere. Hence my blog is late. I chose to swim at 9and from Shelley. Biking past Manly it looked pretty quiet. Stopped for a couple of photos....

Boys in blue arrived @7:15am. 6:10 am moon from the point. I swam 2+2 with Tom, Sam and Carel. ScreenshotJo swam with the Pirate.   John St & Lyndall.   7:19am.     7:23am I went home.   Stay safe, swim, mask up and go home. Simon          

Yesterday I overhead a conversation about appreciation of getting into the ocean – briefly becoming part of something so different to you and so much bigger than you gives you perspective about your place in the universe. In these tough times we are lucky to be able to experience this and wonder whether it matters...

  Arrive in the dark, racing a tumble weed down the pavement. I can hear the surf. Lines of white but the point looks clear (I think peering into the gloom). High tide. Andrew says dark, windy with a bit of a ripple. Grey. Remember to be optimistic. Burdens of a lifetime lift off our...

Bold & Beautiful is not currently running in compliance with public health orders. Thank you for following public health advice at all times. This includes physical distancing, limiting outdoor exercise to no more than two people at a time, staying within your LGA or 10kms from your home. Check in and out wherever you go. This morning the water temperature...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY RUNNING IN COMPLIANCE WITH PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS  Thank you for following public health advice at all times. This includes physical distancing, limiting outdoor exercise to no more than two people at a time, staying within your LGA or 10kms from your home. Check in and out wherever you go. This week, as I was mumbling my...

Lots of PJS around at the moment, sometimes called the ‘labradors of the sea.’ They come to Cabbage Tree Bay when the water goes below 17 degrees. It was 15.8 today on a sunny but chilly beautiful morning. The water was clear and full of amazing sea creatures. The area around the Surf Club wasn’t...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY RUNNING IN COMPLIANCE WITH PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS    Thank you for following public health advice at all times. This includes physical distancing, limiting outdoor exercise to no more than two people at a time, staying within your LGA or 10kms from your home. Check in and out wherever you...

SWIM ACCORDING TO PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS UNTIL BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL CAN RESUME lovely morning for a late start at Balmoral, the parallel swim place to Manly for me. As in the Seinfeld episode where they go to a different Coffee shop but while similar it is not the same, so it is withBalmoral. There is...

Typepad wouldn’t work on Barb’s computer, so I”ve cut and pasted her blog here.     It has been hard over recent weeks not to have an underlying sense that we have done this before. A sense of Deja Vu. ‘a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.’ However, it struck me that ocean swimming...