With a colourful sky and 18 degrees in the water, these 6:30 swimmers were ready to go. There were reports of jimbles and this blogger and 3 of 4 of who she swam with, were lightly stung.  Perhaps try swimming north and complete a stinger special to count towards your winter badge!   Last week...

Siyabona swimmers A few technical difficulties means management notice will be at start of blog. Apologies keep going for the pics. Di x   B&B monthly dinner – 8th June 2021The next B&B monthly dinner for the year will be held on Tuesday 8th June at 6.30 pmat Bluewater Restaurant. To celebrate World Oceans Day, this month’s...

What a stunning sunrise this morning to bring in the first day of Winter! For the last 10 years (since I found this amazing group) 1st June has taken on a new meaning as it’s the start of a challenge. The cold water challenge…to see if we can swim 20 times over 7 different weeks...

  Conditions Air: 13º Wat: 18.5º Waves: the big ones starting to arrive Queensie: Bommie looks like an alpine volcano

Don’t believe everything you hear about the swim conditions. It is best to come and have a look. Today there was a fairly flat sea with an occasional set of biggish waves and the temperature was 17.7.   The reports did not discourage all. Here is the A team. Some excellent swimmers here    ...

By my reckoning we have 2.5 more days of autumn so let’s not fall for that winter schtick, ok?   Regardless of the season the moody morning light was gorgeous. There had been some concern around huge swell, but due to it’s dead south origins, our corner was fairly flat with a regular but infrequent...

Where did the 6.30 express go?   Found them! A bit icy at Shelley today.   Lost in the inception. If your head explodes with dark forebodings too…   “Horny for Love” screams the A frame around the neck of a wild haired crazy on my drive. The Loonies are out. The full moon high...

Now of all the issues close to the heart of swimmers (or should I say close to the bottom of swimmers) is the humble tog. So this morning I asked swimmers, “What togs do you wear and why?” This issue needs to be covered and here’s here our swimmers responded, no ifs, no buts…The Tog...

Wednesday 26th May: air temperature at 6:30am 18.3 degrees water temperature: 18.8 degrees!  warmer in than out – just! conditions: bumpy all the way, strong current, a challenging workout but salty joy! Sky: a kaleidoscope of pink, grey, red, yellow & orange ambience: buzzing!   The water has warmed up (well relatively speaking) over the...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL SWIM SQUAD IS NOT CURRENTLY RUNNING DUE TO PUBLIC HEALTH WARNINGS ON THE RISKS OF CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19). Thank you for following public health advice at all times.  To keep informed of events please read notices at the end of the blog. It was all happening at Manly and in CTB this morning....