Richard turned 500 today!     After winning in 1912 the A-team needed a shower. (stand on you head to see this shot)       An extremely large crowd today.     Shaun & Inge were kept busy past 7:03  with 48 newbies.     Down the ramp.     7:06 crew.    ...

To those celebrating Easter today, Happy Easter. As it commemorates the resurrection of Jesus, I guess happy is an appropriate wish. Yesterday was the last day of daylight saving, and early this morning the clocks went back one hour. On the plus side we will have brighter light for the morning swims. On the minus...

Today was Michelle’s birthday and luckily I bumped into her walking back to my car. We had a lovely girly catch up with the cutest guy in the swim group, Napoleon The day started off dark and quiet at manly surf club but apparently there were 427 swimmers total, early birds and late comers. Here’s...

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...