I woke suddenly. My skin was warm and sticky, and my throat was dry … I peeled the pillow case off my face and removed the tie. I slid my feet into the soft rubbers straps of my Havianas and crept into the lounge. My thighs trembled at what met me … The room had...

First of all, can I make a request to every reader of today’s blog.  Each day there is on average over 600 people viewing this blog.  Can every reader rattle their pockets for at least $3, then go onto the RedFeb site – B&B page HERE – and donate that $3!  This gives you the...

Perfect swimming conditions, flat and warm water from the point all the way to Shelly, and I counted only a small group of 7 hard core doublers after the regular swim this morning. Where has the rest of you been today (John, Richard, Dorset, Alanna, Claire, Ann, Robyn, the German guy with the yellow cap)?...

Cracking morning at the Bold and Beautiful coffee club… I mean swim. The water was  a warm 22.1 degrees for the 90+ swimmers. And what conditions… some graceful Dusky Whaler sharks, heaps of fish, clear water!   These two…   And my brother James came down for his third swim… and came in third. I...

Our oldest B&B swimmer, the legendary Mr Wilf Deck (why wasn’t he knighted by Abbott??) and our youngest gorgeous Millie Edwards, 16 days old, came out to play this morning and what a morning it was! Started off with a beautiful late sunrise as the sun tried to find a way out amongst mountain shaped...

For those that look forward to the stroll along the foreshore before the plunge, this morning you would not have been disappointed. We were met with a glassy sea but 3-4 feet of misty north east swell on a low tide that bought with it a shallow sand bank and some dumping waves in reasonably...

The ocean is eternal, the wave is but an instant. Together they are timeless.  To live more fully in the here and now, remove the past and the future by practicing the mantra of the wave – ‘Forgiveness, Gratitude, Trust’. Forgiveness for past experiences, people and forgiveness for the self, flow from what was.  Gratitude...

104 Bold and Beautiful swimmers, and counting (Ian reckons final will be 170), swam this morning… even 10 newbies turned up! The water has dropped a couple of degrees to 22 but you’d never know! It just so happens that I am today’s guest blogger on the anniversary of my very first B&B swim!  Here’s the...

Good photography is all in the way the shot is set up, apparently.  So here are some of my gallery worthy attempts this morning…  Seriously, they should be framed. It’s all about timing – Emma, Garry and “Pip”:   Angle is everything, it’s so 2015 – “7 o’clock!”:   Ensure everyone is smiling:   Nail...

  There is a moist haze drifting over the beach at 6.30, and heaps of casual swimmers are body-surfing some really nice waves.  Perhaps the pending Qld cyclone is giving our waters a nudge? —   — Four naive newbies – about to fall into the charming clutches of Ian and Shaun at Sign-Up table...