Good Morning Manly! Management reported 350 swimmers this morning, including 10 newbies. Water temperature was a balmy 23.8 degrees. Personally, I think it felt warmer. <insert gratuitous toilet humour here> Today was all about Ian (aka Santa), who celebrated his 97th birthday AND completed his 1000 km with the Bold & Beautiful swim squad:   If you...

Actually more of a Blog Free day. . .Looks like none of the Saturday bloggers were up for the blog challenge this morning! Hint: there are vacancies in the Saturday line up. . . If you are interested do see JK. So perhaps we can start with the stats kindly provided by Management: 350 Swimmers...

Autumn is the best time of year to swim. As one early swimmer reported, no jimbles, warm water, good conditions! Get yourself down to the beach and swim. Alan and Bernhard Dave and Allison – People of the Wall Rob, Alan and Martin know it is the best One newbie today brought by a wise...

    Manly Wine has a different point of view on change:   I saw Paul today and had a chat about his Rottnest Island swim last week, 9 hours of swimming and no sharks spotted. He did get to swim with Eagle Rays once closer to land 🙂 I wonder what’s the next challenge?...

Once again Mother Nature has shown just how creative she can be. The conditions today offered a complexity and diversity that only she could conjure up. With black, heavy storm clouds gathering on the horizon, but patches of clear blue sky directly above us, most swimmers accepted it was going to be a  swim full of...

Happy Birthday Bruce, hope you enjoy your celebrations! (Great pic, thanks Lainey)   What a bunch!   Paul Every recently completed the Rottnest 20km swim in 9hours 25 min. Great job Paul!   Our Yogi’s enjoying their session before the swim today.   Great smiles fellas.   Beautiful   Lainey and the girls.   Wonderful...

Ask people what they’d need in life to be happy and the general response is more money.  Apparently being independently wealthy seems to be the path to happiness. But how long should we postpone happiness in the pursuit of gaining wealthiness? Wealth can be infinite, and it’s relative. Happiness is infinite, but can be irrespective....

“Summer, adieu, goodbye, au revoir, farewell. Now day comes late; now chillier blows the breeze on forsaken beach” Today there was a lot of chat about this being the last Sunday of Summer. I awoke to the sound of rain on the roof, so easy to just pull up the doona and doze off but blogging...

Good morning! This is your sunrise today.   Rainer’s brother is visiting from Germany. Here for just a week, he is looking forward to catching the last of days of the Sydney summer. . .   Strangely, the number of swimmers was down on the usual ‘last possible Saturday to grab yourself a 6km badge’...

I was looking forward to my swim today even more than usual. I did not want to be overwhelmed by blue bottles or waves. Nor did I want to be underwhelmed by such rough conditions that I could not swim at all. I was looking for that perfect state – being whelmed. Thanks Sheena for...