You ever notice how the memories are made when there wasn’t enough money, you didn’t feel secure and you hadn’t achieved ‘that goal’.  There was something missing and you were hungry for it. Times of instability involve expansion of the self, when you’re stretching out to bridge the gap between chaos and coherence.  Life is...

Another Beaut morning – all my sun rise shots have disappeared from my camera! So JK will have to be the first photo of the morning… Here by the 3 ‘rules’ of the BNB swim!   Check out your winter swims here: http://www.faulconbridgesoftware.com/bb/pub/winterbadge2015.html WINTER SWIMS A very brave newby! I didn’t capture it but I...

Today dear swimmers, you will have an additional minute of daylight.  Sunrise is still at 7am, but sunset has shifted to 4.56pm!! When the clock on the clubhouse wall flashed ‘time for swimming’, the sun was bang on time showing itself just above the horizon. The wintering without wetsuit continues.  Veena is determined to make...

Clair and Shaun cotton-on to the rising sun … — Solstice Complaints file “It was too dark to see anything.” “How come two were allowed to swim in wetsuits?” “We got an emailed complaint about the noise at Shelly Beach.” “No-one told me Annie Larkin was going to do it.” “It was too cold for...

Wow – what a morning. After a week out due to illness, what a day to come back! Were you there this morning? Over 100 Bold & Beautiful swimmers took to the 19 degree water – calm, clear, cracking conditions…   Kara took this stunner of a shot from the point…   I didn’t quite...

  Sometimes it’s the simple pleasures in life that can absolutely make your day. Just to see your dog wagging his tail for no other reason than he loves you ! No queue when you go to get coffee. All green lights when you are in a hurry.Sometimes it doesn’t take much, just a hug...

  Well today its the post Solstice blues…..nothing compares with yesterday –  swimming in the nude at dawn on the shortest day of the year! The liberation and freedom go the cool ocean on the birthday suit. (hopefully jimble free) The squeals of joy at the point and the quick undress on the way out...

This year Sydney’s 2015 Winter Solstice took place at 02:39am this morning (22 June). The solstice is the shortest day of the year (9hrs 53 min 54 secs of sunlight-Sunrise 7am -> Sunset 4:53:54 pm)   According to Norris et al (2013) the earliest Australian solstice calculations can be found in the Wurdi Youang stone...

Mornin’ all. MEFF inner westies here. Yes, it was cold this morning …7 degrees. But the water was warm … 18-19ish. There are too few hours today – being the shortest day of the year – so the dedicated BnBers made the most of every minute! Activities included wetsuit wrangling, shivering, posing, congratulating, and a bit...

The air temperature was 6 degrees this morning so I asked a few B&Bers what motivates them to swim.  Winter (Solstice) is coming after all.   This is what I found:   Commitment.  This fellow commits to come every Saturday, and so he does: Atmosphere.  The people, the interaction, the vibe.  “It’s like a drug”:  ...