I went for a walk after work yesterday, wanted to see if there had been any improvement in the water versus pollution over the last few days. I found the washed up hot water system from during the week, sitting under a tree, labelled by the council, as if someone had illegally dumped it there....

The temperature surged up from 18.3 to 18.6 today. Also the sky was blue. There was less debris than yesterday and the day before. The sea weed patch was less as much of it seemed deposited on the sand. But there were a lot of flies on it. Watching out for the maggots in the...

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Stop press!  *** Don’t forget to register for the badge ceremony on Sunday (so you wont miss out on a sausage! 😊 – read (or skim) through the blog for the rego linky thing 😊*** Welcome back sunshine!    The dawn light revealed mother natures sculptures on the beach, a messy confused surf, a LOT of...

In 10 years of swimming with the B&B… today was particularly quiet and uninviting down in our little corner. The wind was howling, surf raging and it was raining! With all the flood water, parts were rather brown but we convinced ourselves that was from soil rather than the other stuff! I just had a...

Today many people had the same idea – staying at home. The conditions coupled with the later sun rise meant the Monday numbers dwindled down to a mere handful – A day when a warm bed and a cup of coffee came out on top. Personally I opted for somewhere in the middle; staying firmly...

The swell chart this morning showed a 4m ENE swell with 46 km/h winds from the east. After swimming through the sludge yesterday at Shelly, I decided for the 1st time in 8 years with the BnB to head to the pool. Turns out that a lot of fellow BnBers had the same idea. These...

But quite a few did. I thought I might swim from Shelly today but didn’t even do that. Heavy rain with big waves and large swell everywhere turned me off. I had fun watching the surf skis working out early today plus the surfers and the odd group of swimmers. I walked to the wall...

6.12am. The beach is dark and empty. Magic Seaweed predicts 6-9 foot so that roaring noise is probably gigantic surf. Low tide 7.32am so sandbanks will be kicking up sharp, dumpy waves. Ran into 2 die-hards, Geoff a Hawaiian ironman veteran and his mate. Talk of big sets out at the point, maybe swimming on...

This blog is coming to you from cloudy, rainy, sunny…not sure what the weather is actually doing…Byron Bay!! Luckily I have my WOW Manly correspondent team in the form of Lainey and Amanda G. The swim in Byron was beautiful. There’s always a strong current running along the beach and today was no different. Starting East...