Arrived at 5:36 ahead of 5:45 sunrise to a beach crowded with year 12 students. I was able to catch the sunrise from the point and look back towards the Corso. We Brett et al did sprints to the Trident at 6:15. I caught the Monday  triathletes ahead of  the drink express  return. Lainey leading...

The only word for today was beautiful. Temperature is up to 17 degrees, hardly any waves and a clear ocean to swim through, I could see sand all the way over and back. Quite a few new swimmers to the group . I swam with Robyn and Georgina and on our return leg had a...

Will it be hot. Will it be cold. We just cannot know. Show up and hurl yourself in. Like lots did today I stopped the jellyfish on their way to the horizon.

OK so it was a bit cloudy this morning with a chill in the air you may thing we don’t deserve in mid September but Cabbage Tree Bay delivered its usual magic as did the coffee team, headed by the lovely Vitor on the coffee machine Say hello to Nerissa, an original Northern Beaches resident...

A chilly wind this morning but our corner was protected and the ocean was calm. Here is Drinky with some of the DX. A quick blog today as off to visit lovely Sheena in hospital after complications after a hip op. We wish her all the best! Lovely to have Corinne back after 3 1/2...

Monday 15/9/26 A check of fb and the app told us that ocean was awake today. A walk down to Manly to check showed this was correct – sunny clear day, warm sun and bolshy ocean. Walk to Shelly and onto the Shelly headlands instead was the decision, no whales seen but some amazing ocean...

Sunday 13/9/26  IWT 18, OWT 18 The ocean has changed again, surge in and out of  Manly, and a nice escalator coming out of Shelley.   Small surge the whole swim, but still a glassy surface. The point has received a lot of sand over the past weeks, the ocean has been active.  Viz is not...

Today the only thing I missed was a turtle . Temperature was nice and cool – 16.5 degrees and the sun was shining to keep us warm . Plenty of swimmers and almost every marine animal was out and about. I saw a large bull ray asleep at the point and followed another down at...

Our Team A who stretched for a bay swim (Mel, Di and Jen). Reports of good but not excellent clarity. Surfs up today. A southerly swell but it’s wrapped around North Head today & peeling into the beach. Clean, long waves. Rob our resident surf lifesaver (pictured) was patrolling on his board out back, showing...

  Cannot work out if this is one person or two They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. I’ve been away from weekday swims for a month (thanks to Thursday bloggers for filling in especially Elizabeth!) and getting down here and into the water feels so good! Even when it’s coldish A rare appearance...