Why would a parent want their child to learn, “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game”? You’d think that in today’s rat-race it would be wiser to teach them to do whatever it takes to beat the others. Play is an interesting part of who we are. Our ability...

Another top Sunday. Management is still counting, but I’m estimating 321 swimmers, including, let’s say, 12 newbies. Roz and John were there..   ..and so were Robin and Brendan:   Ian was signing up newbies:   The Girls:   The Boys:   Helen and Stacey ruining an otherwise beautiful shot of Little Sarah:   Shaun...

We have many tribes in life, be it family, friends & activities. Mostly we don’t recognise that they are our tribe (family excepted) but we know there is something that connects us. I recently started a new job and generally I jump in and don’t really think too much about the personalities or potential tribe...

Not a lot of swimmers venturing down to Manly this morning, but for those who did, fun conditions with a nice north east swell pushing into the bay!   This was the crew at 7am (though some had already ventured in or around to half way).   Some manly men! Sterling threatened not to swim...

  Knowing a nor easter was coming, everyone had anticipated the conditions that greeted us this morning. I decided to park at Fairy Bower and walk to Manly to see what the Bay had to offer. The less than 1 metre swell seemed to be whipped up and exaggerated by the 8kt NNE winds. The...

Our beautiful WOW’s warming up for their swim   Jackie looking very stylish.   Grant all suited up.   Martin & Michelle, fit as ever.   Our Tuesday Yogi’s getting in for a good stretch.   Lots of activity today with water craft and a NE Swell   19.6 in the water, really time for...

Clever rituals provide a place to find coherence when grappling with the chaos of life. A way to ground our self on something solid and known. Not a grounding anchor to hold us down. More a stable launchpad from which to push off as we move forward and evolve. That is, as long as your...

Another perfect morning and to paraphrase Lao Tzu: “The journey of a thousand kilometres begins with one stroke”. Dorset has been rebadged and getting even closer to his 2,000 kilometres.   Guy is still recuperating from a shoulder injury but may be back in the water tomorrow if he can tear himself away from another...

What an eclectic morning we had down at the Bold and Beautiful corner of Manly. It involved an amazing cake stall, the swim and a goat. Here is Lainey who is the brainchild of the cake stall. She had heard that our gym was supporting the Sanfilippo Children’s foundation as we were participating in the...

I think young people are so clever these days. While it took me quite a while to find out about BB and get here to swim just from Lane Cove, we constantly get visits from overseas like Rolo and Marieke and Lars  last week. This week we had Grunhilde and Julie from Norway. Welcome. And...