When I look at waves all I see is the size of them. Wiser people say things like – it is big but not breaking or it has no power in it etc. I feel that the skills you need to be an improving ocean swimmer are sort of like magic eye skills – keep...

You couldn’t have picked a better day for Jane to return to swimming. It was calm, clear, warm and as good as it gets quite frankly . After the recent heatwaves then thunderstorms and churned up waters, people were making the most of it and clocking up their km’s I”m sure in doubles and triples....

  Calmer seas and calmer skies this morning. Here are the 6.30am swimmers heading out. It’s Lainey filling in for Alex who is sick today. I’m so loving the warmer water and it was a bit clearer  so quite a few fish sightings! The dress code was orange this morning, (for us 3 anyway!) Nick,...

Around 5 this morning the first cracks of lightning let loose and I thought a sleep in was on the cards but alas too noisy to sleep. So here is the story as it unfolded. With 30 cm’s of dribble and an ever so light nor easter puffing occasionally. Interestingly we have South Easterly forecast tomorrow...

It’s known that when you put yourself in a different environment, new genes are turned on throughout your body. These genes encode proteins that are the building blocks for a different version of yourself. A you that you’ve had the potential to be all along, but haven’t yet met. These shifts in genetic potential, or...

I received a text this morning from today’s rostered-on blogger Lips…  He can’t make the swim and could I blog instead? I haven’t blogged for 2 years …and you’ll see why below.. … I grabbed my camera and headed down. On the way I saw the 6.30’ers walking down to the harbour – The “blue-bottle...

Conditions the past few days have been perfect for open water swimming in our little corner of the ocean. Sunny, calm conditions, gentle southerly swells  and warm water temperature. Many swimmers have been happily anticipating completing a 6km swim, taking in the splendid sights of Shelley Beach, the Queenscliff boulders and the Freshwater Beach ocean...

With all the sightings of the fever of cow nosed-rays I wondered about who is the decider of collective nouns. Personally I would not have selected a ‘fever’ for rays. I think a glide of rays would be better. Their movement is so smooth and elegant. So I then wondered what is the collective noun...

Today I was greeted by calm seas, dark clouds with a touch of light coming through, and a beautiful temperature of 22 degrees. Sally convinced her cousins Michael and Disa from Armadale to come and swim, hope they saw some of the marine life Plenty of people are turning up mid week in groups and...

This question was all around the swim today as early swimmers, high on endorphins told us about the large group of Cow Nose Rays they’d seen out in the middle of the bay! Another awesome marine sighting on our morning swim. These rays were seen a couple of months ago. We thought they were migrating...