What a relief it was today on two counts – one the waves were much friendlier looking, even though there was a light drizzle and two: that stifling heat was gone with that southerly coming through last night. There was a large group of 6.30 swimmers out to play.  Reports on their return from Drinky...

Our 1000 km swimmer, Shelley Keeble, came up with today’s blog title! When many of us rolled up at the Surf Club it was only 8 hours previously that we had been dancing to ‘Come on Eileen’ at the B&B Xmas party! It felt like the party hadn’t ended with such a fun and friendly...

The Surf has kicked up, most people walked to Shelley.   Stunning beams of light captured by Edwina.   Melissa, Edwina, Terry & Brian looking forward to their swim.   Terry & Brian, watching the passing parade.   Monica, Lisa, Jenny & Edwina getting ready. Hamming it up for the camera.   Ian, letting everyone...

  Tricia & Clair led the 6am charge through a very choppy swim all the way to Shelly. 5.54am     Clubbers   Bootie Bootie   John Kelly’s sign language     Invasion of Swiss newbies Severine, Lucas, Jeanine and Pablo     Matching toes, bag, cap and togs.   Have a great week ahead.  ...

There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. Yesterday John Bond valiantly led the 6k & 10k groups on what was described as a spectacular swim. Here are a couple of photos and you can clearly see on their faces that the pain of those distances was definitely outweighed by the pleasure of participating and...

This is Ojigi Fukusuke bidding you ‘welcome’ to the blog, to the swim and to a summer of smiles. Being a Japanese symbol of good luck and happiness, who better to herald in the summer badge swims and navigate around challenges (I’m thinking mostly the nasty stinging ones).   The pre-swim topic was the 6km...

Ocean:     Flat flat flat Temp:     20.4º Vis:           Very poor Seaweed:  Mostly gone Air:         A brisk breeze coming off the mountains Sun:        Eventually up and welcomingly warming Swimmers:  280 Newbies:    Seven ———- Stuff that happened yesterday Jeff did a double and got the chills …   ———– Penny (Mrs Drinks Express) dropped by for coffee time...

It was a real “mish mash” sort of a day down at Manly. People didn’t know if they were coming or going, or if they were Arthur or Marthur. Some people swam north, some went south and others walked over to the harbour for a swim. In the end I walked to Shelly with Ted...

What a spectacular morning! I woke up earlier than usual and headed down to Manly to try and catch the 6am-ers but was slightly late so I walked to Fairy bower to get an action shot of their crossing. It was so beautiful I decided to pause for a while to take it all in....

With a low tide at 7.13 this morning and the 30 cm of S/S/E swell , it was a perfect morning for a swim. While not sunny, the rain stayed away with only a light and occasional spattering. The walk to the point made for an easy start.   Before we had even started Ian...