Live your best life and enjoy each day. The sea brings new conditions to enjoy each day but today it was superb – warm, a bit wave but not much, good visibility and swimmers in every direction. Bold and beautiful smiling swimmers. AND I saw some duskies – two near the point but others saw...

  Water:     21.9º Vis:         Exquisite Found:    Fitbit (by Allister Lugsdin) – See whiteboard crew tomorrow Sharks:    Heaps                       Tuesday Night Talk. This month’s talk, SWIMMING WITH WHALES Husband and wife team Alice and David Edgar are Manly locals with a love of marine mammals and whales...

After quite a week last week with big surf and strong rips, it was lovely to come down this morning and actually swim from Manly. The temperature was up on yesterday at 21.3c but numbers of people were way down so it was pretty quiet in the bay.   A gorgeous, sunny morning but air...

Happy Monday swimmers ☺️ A fresh morning and huge surf today! Water was quite warm once you got in, at 20.4. I swam out to the point and got absolutely smashed by a huge wave and subsequent undertow that scared the sh!t out of me. And then Genevieve and I decided that the waves looked...

Don’t mess with the Zohan! Trooper rants ‘no dilly dallying around here’ and pushes us all to our limits on another day on the sand and in the surf.   A standard dragon boat typically consists of 22 team members: 20 paddlers, 1 drummer and 1 steerer. Like a well oiled team our FFF all...

G’day Yesterday the spirit of the Anzacs was amongst us.  If you haven’t done the pre dawn (4.25) Manly service on the Corso, do yourself a favour and attend next year, it’s very moving. To see so many people attend the BnB service at 7 am was very ‘ lekker ‘ ( the wonderful Afrikaan...

What a beautiful morning we had for our day of remembrance and Anzac Day swim! Stunning sunrise, challenging surf  to go with the mood thinking about our soldiers… but clear waters, incredible fish and wonderful people 🙂 Thank you to Ian, John, Peter and Bruce for organising a beautiful tribute before our swim. Fantastic to...

Yesterday was B&B Summer Badge Day.   Badge Ceremony Ann.                      Henrietta.      Ian.            Gary.          Guy.   Congratulations to Shelley and all B&Bers who swam 20+ times last summer. 15 years of the B&B.   $15,000...

It was strong in the surf today. Occasional big waves coming in random directions. But it was less powerful than the last few days I understand. It was warm in the water and at first seemed free of stingers. But a jimble or two found me at the point, and also Suzie, on exiting. The...

Reminder: 2 important events coming up. Hoping you can join us at both. The Badges have arrived. This coming Sunday 23rd April our summer badge ceremony will be held at 8am at Royal Far West. Enter via the gate on the S Steyne opposite the beach. Please let us know if you are coming for...