Your nervous system is responsible for organising every process in your body, every thought and every action. It comprises your brain, spinal cord, 70km of nerves and more connections than there are stars in our galaxy. Like our galaxy, we are still unraveling the mysteries of the nervous system. We do know that it evolved...

Super hot day and a busy BNB gathering… the pics speak for themselves – it was magical! …and I can’t be bothered to write anything… Bower fun.. Now to the most important part of the Day and the ONLY reason anyone swims these days .. The Big Old Bleedin’ Badge Ceremony! This was for the...

Happy St Patricks Day and another superb day of swimming in Cabbage Tree Bay. Today we say a special hello to our 4 legged friends on shore who wait patiently for our return and the marine life we swim with. We were lucky today to have Sharnie from Australian marine conservation society reminding us of...

Lots of good things on in March. Coastrek walk today. Balmoral swim on Sunday  Bold and Beautiful swim every day. Quick blog today because Elizabeth Ecks and I are volunteering for Coastrek today. Manly offered another beautiful swim day   Derek and I competed for the role of photographer and he won – here I...

Autumn is a bit of a weird time of the year.  We are still full of energy and enjoying our swimming from the summer months, its getting dark in the morning before we switch to daylight saving which makes it harder to get up and going, yet the water is just divine and last year’s...

Thursday 15 March 2018: Bring back summer

All of you who stayed in bed this morning because of a bit of rain, missed a gorgeous swim this morning. Around 95 of us swam today with 2 newbies and these three were about to swim a double too. It might have been bumpy but it was warm, silky, stinger-free and bloody beautiful… It...

It was a dark Tuesday morning and we had a smaller group of swimmers than usual. The water was a warm 23.1 and it was a lovely swim.       Kieren and Peter at Shelly. A smaller group today at Shelly Ian arriving back at  Manly after a nice swim.       Key Stats:...

  BabeWatch Murray asked me to thank everyone who supported their charity yesterday, they have so far raised over $4000+ for Batyr to empower young people to talk about mental health struggles. Here is the link if you’d like to make a donation: https://swim.gofundraise.com.au/page/MurrayColderick   5:41am met Richard before his run + his 6am Boulderdash and...

  They came They swam     They left They were happy 6:30 – the start of the BabeWatch fundraiser.   Stats: Swimmers: 378 Newbies: lots Temp 22.8     Manly Art Gallery Society  Libby said come and meet the movie star artists: Support your local community – presents BRILLIANT ARTISTS Film Series 2018 – 4 brilliant...