BnB blogging is so competitive these days …. Gone are the days of just a few photos and a sentence or 2 ..NOW there has to be a theme, a bloggers ‘personal stamp’ all over the page, jostling for good photos with non-bloggers and bloggers-not-on-duty… and then of course it’s ALL about the SIZE! The bigger the better. Even the rule ‘blog has to be out by midday’ has been replaced with the ‘blog has to be spectacular even if it’s out by 5pm.. the next day’! I often see bloggers NOT even swimming just so they can spend those few extra minutes blogging.. and some don’t even turn up at all but still manage to blog!
And yet every single blog is basically the SAME photos over and over and over, the sea, the sand, the pink caps, people’s backs, the budgies, the sun rise, Lips photobombing … And sometimes there is no mention at all of that day’s swim! So I have nothing new to add to this blog… it really was the same as always down the South end of Manly beach but thankfully as always it is magnificent and no matter what is going on we are guaranteed to feel great after our swim!
Within seconds of pointing the camera in Lips’ ..Ava was photobombing, she is better than her dad now!
Me thinks she meant a different finger??
Welcome back official Let’s Go’er JK! Always a stickler for time keeping.. Let’s Go 7.07am on the dot!
Lucy managed to find the official blog camera…
Some great clacker shots from Peta 😉
Housekeeping
210 and counting swimmers
11 newbies
21.7 degrees
Surf Carnival swim change. It’s that time of year again when our corner is over run. The Manly Surf Lifesaving Open Carnival will be held on 23 January and the Nipper Nats on 25 January 2016 (Saturday and Monday). On both days there will be a very high level of IRB activity in the Southern corner in front of the surf club and the ramp, particularly in the early mornings starting from about 5.30am. On these occasions, we revert to starting from Shelly, swimming to inside the point and then back to Shelly. It is important that we all co operate as the likelihood of head clashes or being run over by IRB’s are increased on these two days. Thank you for your co operation.
Some inspirational quotes to finish off:
Signing off LB xx
7 comments
RH
17/01/2016 at 12:48 pm
What is that thing on the beach, Bubs? A sandcast pyre? It looks like it’s smoking too …
Love the fish-eye lens!
Lips
17/01/2016 at 1:05 pm
I missed your little rants Lesbubbles.
Cabbage Tree Bay Effluent #168 beats Driftwood #47 in my book. Not that it’s a competition. They are both great. In their own way.
Ava rocked. She almost ran over Billy at the point. And caught a 20cm wave back to the beach. Take that Indie Coombes!
Anne Henshaw
17/01/2016 at 1:47 pm
Can we still do the double on the 23rd and 25th?
DWSS
17/01/2016 at 3:08 pm
Best Blog EVA!! Except it had a photo of Lips in it.
DWSS
17/01/2016 at 3:12 pm
Recommend doing an early double and finishing with the 7amers.
Also make sure you stay on the south side of the point so you are not in the entry/exit lane for the IRBs coming out the rip, next to the rocks. Probably best to meet next to the yellow shed on the south side of the point.
Lainey
17/01/2016 at 3:29 pm
Nice to have you back blogging Lesbubbs. Love the pano shots . I still have a brightly coloured Speedo women’s cozzie Ann found in changing room last week.
Simon
18/01/2016 at 9:49 am
Lesley
I love this blog.
You forgot to mention the mandatory fisheye shots and inspirational quotes