Please bear with me, as there is a lot to get through – because I started before sunrise.  BLOG FOOTNOTE:  You can zoom in on any photo by clicking on the image.  (There are several mob photos today, and you may want to zoom in on some of these.) — 5.22 am: Bower Lane  ...

Ok so maybe a little hiccup in the Bishop/Doctor blog communications this week….. The Bishop is in Melbourne and the Doctor thought that was next week and is on night shifts…. So she didn’t swim this morning (well she almost took a tumble into the birthing pool but that is a swimming different story….) and...

In my other life (the one where I wear clothes) I often have to quantify the subjective and rate the vague. I was thinking about this and started wondering, how am I going to rate this swim? How do I quantify this swim against all the others I have done? How do you rate it...

Funny sky one hour after sunrise (6.32am)   Sheena  said, “put your elbow on your knee Greg”, as part of her yoga mantra, you too can imbibe the karma with the new B&B yoga on Tues, Thurs & Sat. Charlotte said, “zip me up please” while Ian said “‘why don’t any of these women ask me to...

This is how Heather saw in Monday morning.  Simply stunning don’t you think?  Then along with 80 or so other swimmers, she turned up at B&B central to plunge into the glorious 18.7 degree water.  Unlike our regular Monday blogger who didn’t quite make it. . . .   Manly was abuzz with activity.  The combination...

Or what we say or what we feel … We are what we do … When all is said and done more is said than done … Lots of Do’ers this morning … 170 of you showed up at the lake this morning. These brave ladies fought the tough conditions that greeted us and beat...

Over 200 pink capped swimmers plunged into 18.4 degree water this morning to start off the weekend in the best possible way. Megan summed up what she loves about this swim later to me in Havana Bar. ‘It puts me in a great mood for the rest of the day. I’ve just swam my 5th...

Happy Friday everyone! Only one more week until Daylight Saving! (Oct 5) Sydney area – 20c – Partly cloudy. Winds southwest to southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h, reaching 35 km/h along the coast. The water has flattened out from the last few days and the visibility is slightly better ..         Mark Allan…….....

Dr Becky standing in for the Bishop this morning. In fact we took this blog on as a duo a few months ago but I have as yet been unable to do a Thursday blog having worked every Thursday since then – clearly a message to work for God rather than the health service! As...

In the past few days I have met two amazing women and I have been inspired equally by them both. One is based overseas, swims and travels, whilst the other is based in Manly, swims and travels. Both are young and in fact many of  you may know both of these famous women. By pausing,...