A big crowd gathered at the Medibank Bold and Beautiful swim this morning! (I’m kidding… send all angry messages to Bruce)… What a wonderful Good Friday swim – it’s just so nice to see everyone emerge on a public holiday, people greeting each other, swimming together!   Big crowd walking down the ramp…   The...

Only a couple more sleeps until the end of daylight savings and we start to get some light back in the morning.  Sophie and her friends were jumping for joy this morning with just how perfect the conditions were.  There were a few waves to give us something to dodge on the way in and...

This morning the air had that snowy feel to it. A certain bite in the air like snow had fallen somewhere. On a rising tide the morning was very calm with next to no wind and yet a balmy 21.5 degrees made warmer by the cool feel to the air. We should see a small...

                                                            Have a great week ahead.   Simon Happy 90th Birthday mum.     Stats : water 23+ degrees, swimmers: edging to 200, newbies: a few....

Amazing light show this morning – it was worth coming down just for the sunrise!   Little Sarah wearing her trademark pink cossie, adding an extra splash of colour to an already colourful morning:   It was Tanja’s last swim with us before heading back to Hamburg later today:       Did I mention...

  “The person who is swimming against the stream, knows the strength of it.” Woodrow Wilson It was another beautiful, moody morning at Manly this morning. I was looking for inspiration for the this short blog and googled quote of the day and this one popped up. The last couple of days the strength of...

Ocean swimmers are so keen to focus their time on ocean swimming that they economise on prepositions. “Getting out” and “getting out” for entering and exiting the sea but also “Getting in” [to the water]and “getting in” [to the beach]. Some people may be confused but ocean swimmers are not. Today every one was keen...

Conditions for the Bold & Beautiful swim this morning were just like a Swedish Boxer – tough but fair. But that’s how we roll at the B&B. The experts call it a Growth Mindset. A way of welcoming challenge and taking control of the conditions. Like being an inverse paranoid who believes the world is...

Morning all- a combined blog today from edwina and Dee, just for something different.  while  some of our swimming buddies were waking up in New Zealand preparing to hit the Otago trails, those left behind were treated to a spectacular surprise. Waiting at the point, Leisa and Wendy amongst others were greeted at the point...

A gorgeous start this morning after a very warm night. With a low tide and no swell to speak of, clearing water and nary, a ripple saw some PB’s tumble to new speedier versions of their former selves. PS – Swell expected to rise by midweek with the southerly pushing it along – so awesome...