Hi Folks, it’s Lainey here covering Anna’s Saturday blog.  A few photos of today’s rainy but glorious swim and then quite a few more I’ve taken during the last week of marine life and amazing people! Also a turtle tale at the end.  Rainy, dull and damp but still around 170 of us showed up...

Several times this morning I heard people reflect how lucky we are to have the great place to swim and such a good group wit swim with. If you have been thinking of starting or getting back in to it, don’t hesitate. Just come on down any day and have a swim. Mark Bruce and...

Buzzing down at Manly Beach this morning. Around 130 of us turned up for our favourite swim… bit choppy compared to recent mornings and Scotty’s Passage was closed.   Dave with an unidentifiable female.   That made him happy…   Le Boys… and who was quickest across the bay this morning? None other than Scrappy...

All quiet on the western front on this day at eleven o’clock in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918     With Drinky in the background we managed to get a good group shot before the swim. all the gorgeous glamour girls in the front row…. Izzy, Attracta,...

Thats the motto for this family. Fiona and Matt, are healthy & proud B & B parents who love the swim so much that they share the job of minding their beautiful 8th mth old daughter Samantha in a tag team swim event a few mornings each week. They are really well organised and all...

The shoreline is constantly shifting, the waves, the ripples moving the sand.  That’s the flow of nature, a healthy environment.  Problems only arise when we attempt to lock the coastline into an artificial construct that does not honour this flow. The renown Menninger clinic performed a study investigating 400 patients who had experienced a spontaneous...

Mornin’ all. Inner Westies here.  IT issues this morning… sorry for delay. We’ll start with the stats. We had seven new recruits – and I am featuring one today in the blog! The water was 19.5 degrees although it felt a little cooler…. and there were 160 swimmers. (Really Ian? Reckon I’m not the only...

I tested my new wetsuit today.  I’ve only ever worn a sleeveless so the full arm felt really tight around my chest.  My concerns were ‘washed’ away once I entered the water.  Buoyant bliss!  I was a missile cutting a line through the slight chop with ease 😀  Like my wetsuit, my photos today reflect...

Back on Blog Duty If you haven’t missed my blogs for the last six months, I don’t blame you, Roger’s Friday blogs have been unparalleled, and he left big shoes to fill. My excuse for the long silence: first a ruptured Achilles tendon back in March, followed by a couple of days in intensive care...

First of all, apologies for blogging without swimming, not sure if this is allowed in the Constitution of the B&B… It´s been a while since my last swim due to competitions and a dislocated shoulder and considering the conditions today, I think a lot of swimmers will stay in bed (wise decision). During these few weeks...