—– Overseas Bureau: “Jane was about to jump in and swim with Nessie … and hasn’t been seen since.” —- Booty Buckets: One is missing …   Here it is …   —– Alan watching others as they check out the huge surf on horizon.  Snow in Blackheath, and gale force winds creating 6-metre waves...

From spring yesterday back to winter today, I guess that is why we were a modest 69 (ish) swimmers today.  The clouds may be rolling back in, but there is always the guarantee of a sunny smile and a warm hug at B&B central.     And I have to confess, being my birthday, I...

  Todays word – “Indefatigable”: Definition: incapable of being fatigued, having or showing a capacity for persistent effort; not tiring or relenting. If you are a B&B swimmer this applies to you, especially if you swam today as we had: medium high tide, a nice ride on the rip out to the point (provided you...

What a gorgeous morning in Manly! 104 happy swimmers enjoyed beautiful sunshine and just enough swell to keep it interesting around the point. And as it was the last day of winter, we also bore witness to the usual last-minute winter badge stampede.. those half-committed winter swimmers that leave it to the very last day to...

This is your Saturday morning quiz. Sweet prize to the first correct answers from any of the 85 of today’s swimmers on the blog comments. 1. Which of these swimmers partner plays in a local Ukelele band ? 2. Which countries where each of these lovelies born ? 3. How many swims combined had these...

Friday Morning!  Let’s see…. look out the window… no driving rain…. check the radar…. not too bad….   Booty camp check… They had some sort of Japanese theme going on this morning Note – Godzilla in the middle….   … with Ninjas!   …and Sumo Wrestling!   Since it hasn’t been done before .. and...

The water is warming up and so were the conditions today. 17.9 degrees and just under 30 swimmers braving the big waves! In fact only 5 of us went out through the breakers at 7am (and only 4 returned)… I love that feeling of a big surging wave coming beneath you and then watching it...

Today was forecast to be the windiest and rainiest day of the week, the rain bucketed it down at 6am, the surf was wild and there were loads of bluebottles but… it didn’t deter 55 of us from jumping in for our ‘vitamin sea’! Even though one of our bravest and kindest swimmers, (Drinky above)...

Is the B&B just one big behaviour modification program? Never would I have imagined that I would ever leap out of bed – where it was warm and toasty – to embrace what can only be described as a miserable day.   I now evaluate the sets when looking at the surf crashing onto the...

One can never be in a state of growth when in a state of defence, the two cannot co-exist.  This is both a physiological truth and a global truth.  Observed all the way from the health of an individual to the health of the world’s ‘powerful’ nations. When seeking an example of true power we...