Punters and racers gathered at B&B Central this morning.  Some started early, limbering up for the main event. A modest field numbering around 85 or so and made up of early lappers and hopefuls exchanged advice, tips and silly jokes amid the pre-race build up.   The fashion in the field was dominated by brights...

You are the universe, all its intelligence and beauty, The stillness and the storm, the order and the chaos, You are the opportunity in the instant between then and now, The everything, and the nothingness from whence it came. You’re all that remains once you’ve remembered to forget Integrate what was, discover what truly is,...

This little nugget of wisdom came back to me on Friday morning, whilst staring out of the 38th Floor of Merrill Lynch waiting to be interviewed. My somewhat reckless approach to my “career” map will render me unemployed as of next Friday and instead of berating myself as would be my default approach, I gave...

When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object – its supposed to be one of the great imponderables of science but for the B&B its a daily occurrence. Theres no doubt that the Bold & Beautiful is an unstoppable force. From a casual conversation between two friends, on a summer day nearly 6 years ago now,...

Ghostly at 5.35 a.m. — ROUGHSHOD ON THE STEPS: Caught this guy sleeping on the beach   — LITTLE SARAH PRACTISING her racing dives …   — BOULDERDASHERS REPORTING AT 5.40 A.M: Including Midge, Brendan, Jo, Robert, Rainer, little Sarah and Bernard …       — HALLOWEEN STARTS EARLY   — THREE LOVELIES! —...

Last Friday as my wife Victoria and I left the house to go for the swim she had a stroke. Pretty scary stuff. Within 15 minutes she was in an ambulance on the way to RNSH where after the scan they immediately operated. Honestly it was the scariest morning of my life. Fortunately they were...

This is what you feel like when you don’t swim ! This what you feel like when you do swim ! But this is what you will see when you swim ! My day started with this view @ 6am…. How did your day start ? Booty Camp were all flat working..its free ! you should...

6.30am Tuesday 28th October Pure Gold   In the early morning light the Yoga devotees were told to get closer to their day and to make a difference with a smile to at least two strangers.   The early crew on their way back in.   The executive pondering the conditions   Lesley offering some...

Todays blog is dedicated to Sam , father of 4, lawyer, banker and ocean swimmer   Tod Ali and Miles off to Shelly at 6am   8 + 1 swam the first offical Bolderdash (3km return to Queenscliff) of the season at 6am   6.12am   Reg & Sylvia doing a Shelly at 6.13am   Sunbeams over...

Yes, that’s right after a short interlude (let’s call it two months) out of the water, I got to experience once again Cabbage Tree Bay and all it’s beauty -that’s you lot! The Bold & Beautiful swim group! My first photo of the day, of a beautiful flower which greeted me as I checked out...