Good morning folks on this beautiful warm and sunny September Wednesday! Around 130 pink capped swimmers plunged in to Cabbage Tree Bay and swam across our favourite corner of the world. I caught the sunrise at Freshwater today on the way back from my pre-swim run with another awesome group of people ( Manly...

In case anyone wasn’t tuned to News24 you might have missed the chair shuffling that ushered in a new Prime Minister. I thought we should throw out an invitation for him to join us for an inaugural swim to kick of the term. The morning was another spectacular start with a 2-3 ft North Easterly...

I arrived at Henrietta’s place on Bower St at 5:52am, a great place to watch the sunrise and the B&B passing parade.       Santori or Shelly?   walkers off the point   Paddler with Alex Jackson and Gaeton further out and on there way from QC to Shelly. Gaeton sent me some great...

Dual definitions for “sunny” today: the more literal meaning of sunlight, and a personification of the day as having a happy disposition…   Bathed in light, 160 or so swimmers entered 19.3 degree water with smiles on their faces.  Everyone must have been really keen today because it felt like we started half way across...

Winter Badge Raffle tickets are still selling – tomorrow, and of course Sunday – raising funds for our charitable host Royal Far West.  Early dawn Management here, already on the job …   — Many thanks Guy for your open-hearted talk three nights ago, which drew a full house … and much seat-trading during past...

Well the water temp is like a yoyo… and today it was up! A beautiful 18.9 degrees had many considering whether it was time to shed the wetsuit… but maybe not quite yet…   I love seeing all the friendly faces each morning. Sterling’s sister was over from Paddington (somewhere over the Spit Bridge I...

Great talk given by Guy Dunstan on his struggle with Bipolar & not over coming it but learning to live with it and the ways to recognise the signs. Like all thing early diagnosis is the key. I know personally what its like as my mother suffered from Bipolar (manic depression) all her life ! Many people...

Warm water and summer days….how will you make the most of it? To inspire everyone I asked a few B&B regulars what their summer goals were… Sean is going to do all of the 6km and 10km swims this summer and he is going to try not to sleep in and miss any (like he did...

Happy birthday Ian Ian Forster (management) had a birthday today ! Thanks for all the work you do everyday Unfortunately Pauline had to work today so she couldn’t join him ! Ian’s sadness was concealed by his brave face all the same, what a good sport.   Top 2 photos supplied By Simon Cowell  ...