What a Magnificent Morning! The surf was flat as! The water temp was 20.3 to be precise! There were three newbies.                 water on lens Newbies Cheers,  Terry ( Brian is  playing Masters Basketball in Adelaide  ) Thank You!

Perfection and reality, both individual and personal experiences. It is said that we never see reality as it is, only as we are… But who we are isn’t who we is, if it’s what we think we need to be to get by. Right? Our perfection is always there, beneath the patina of past perceptions...

Yesterday, Katrina promised Jane a bag of horseshit. Jane is into gardening. Great fertilizer I’m told.   Look at Jane’s happy face. It’s the simple things in life..   Also a load of horseshit, the excuses I heard for showing up late this morning. For those 130 of us who managed to show up in...

A few bluebottle friends arrived at Cabbage Tree Bay downtown village and asked a local groper shopkeeper what the best things were to do on a weekend.  The groper answered, “Well, if you can get up early enough, there’s a huge squad of big fish that swim overhead at 7am.  Yeah… it’s a pretty amazing...

The beachline yesterday was an intimidating translucent purplish blue … many people looked; but didn’t swim   — Someone saw something on Wednesday morning …   — The blueys were creating a bleak scenario.  But  – As Brian said (in 1979) – perhaps we should “Always look on the bright side of life …”   —...

Well, a morning for the brave… Driving down with my 2 year old it looked good from far….   And some thought this looked pretty good up close…   But the beach was a war zone… as was the ocean… covered in the swimmers enemy – the bluey! So hats off to those who braved...

About 150 swimmer made the plunge today, 5 newbies !!! you should come down & join us ! it is life changing…. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. This is the greatest way to start the day.     The Drinks...

Another wonderful morning at Manly. We had a pretty big group on the 6.30am Drinky Express. 19.8 degrees, glassy and clear with the sun shining on our lovely little cove. Aproximately 80 swimmers today. On the way back there was a turtle cruising around under us about 1/2 way back. Sorry, no picture.   Shelley...

B&B Special Event Today!!! Geremy Cliff (shark expert at Natal Sharks Board, SA) As head scientist at the Natal Sharks Board in Durban, South Africa, Geremy Cliff runs the South Africa’s shark attack file, where his duty is to archive all shark attacks on humans. His work also broaches the ecological impact of the shark netting program on...

First things first – Happy Birthday Elizabeth Stuart! We didn’t get to sing for Elizabeth at Shelly but, luckily, caught her on the ramp in front of the surf club on her way back.   The day started off somewhat gloomy, and with just the right amount of drizzle to keep those fair-weather swimmers under...