Bloggers Needed! Like to try your hand at amateur journalism ?  Please join the blogging team as we have vacancies on every other Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.  Help keep the B&B journal alive by helping periodically.  All training will be provided and it doesn’t have to take up much time. ...

Yipee ….a Sunday swim in Autumn and a celebration of all those good sort who swam some incredible lengths over Summer. A whopping 125 people qualified over summer for the 6km badge and 41 for the 10km. Well done to all of you! We headed to Royal Far West to congratulate them all. Lovely smiley...

Today is Harmony Day.  It’s a day to remember and celebrate the diversity of our nation.  A day to respect and acknowledge our First People.  A day to value the individual cultural contributions of all who call Australia home.  We own a shared history, together.   I would like to share a couple of poems with...

 I can’t contain my excitement at seeing this beautiful Hawksbill Turtle swim from under it’s rock shelter, to the surface in Cabbage Tree Bay yesterday, so am starting off my fill-in blog for Bernard with him! So many wondrous creatures lurk above and below the surface of our favourite swimming spot…   There’s a link...

Great morning at the Bold and Beautiful. Can you believe the water is still 22.2 degrees? It really was classico conditions…   Scotty and I live parallel lives. We got married within a few weeks of each other, had our first kid within 6 weeks of each other, bought houses within a few weeks of...

  Life is what you make it ! ! !   I could have stayed in bed, but I made the effort ! Boy I’m  glad I did !   Not saying it was easy, but worth the effort ! This all happened before 8am     Lutz’s last Booty Camp for a while ! Goodbye...

St Patricks Day today, great to get the exercise in early so that we all have a “deposit in our exercise bank accounts” before the yearly Black Beer festival for a day. Even the water was St Pats green,  the baby stingrays were camouflaged green today.   John has some green goggles for St Patricks...

I met Claire last year when I  wrote a blog, titled, “Where’s Drinky when I need him?..”  about  Claire the mother of Drinky’s baby Maguire     Claire is a great swimmer who requested a “mascara” shot   Here is her Facebook shot   She’s moving her  “Thomas the Tank Engine” business t0 Hong Kong  ...

I don’t know what happened today but our usually reliable Sunday team of bloggers didn’t show so I am composing a lightning blog (for all of those closet writers who are a bit tentative about volunteering, don’t be hesitant, with Mary’s wonderful notes, it’s dead easy and it can be quick too….I reckon this one...

There’s something about a morning ocean swim with friends and fish which allows us to live in the moment.   First light breaks over Manly Beach:   The water invites us:   Quiet contemplation on the rocks wishing they were swimming with pink cappers:   Taking it all in:   This is hardcore!   Charlie...