A single ripple reaches up beyond the safety of its familiar ocean, peaks and for an instant, it is.  The whole expressed completely in the one moment of perfection. Returning to the depths, never to re-appear in the same form.  An echo in the sun fuelled waves telling a tale to distant shores.  A half...

It’s the official start of winter and 152 swimmers celebrated the beginning of the new season in style – or alternatively, in onesies.         Today also marks the official kick off to the Bold and Beautiful winter badge season! You know you want one!  There are 14 weeks in the winter season.  To...

What a fantastic Autumn we’ve had! Warm, sunny days and water temperature not going below 20 degrees. The water has been flat, calm and clear. Each morning we have been greeted by magnificent sunrises over our favourite corner of the world… It’s the last day of Autumn. Today it looked wet and gloomy but the...

Well the Summer like conditions can’t go on forever otherwise it would get just plain boring, so today we had a little bit of training for the winter badges.. It’s going to be kinda rainy but not too cold for the weekend but we love it! Huw and his clown troupe have been working on...

It is always nice to get a text from Sterling at 6:20am when you are still sound asleep. All it said was ‘pool like conditions’. How can you resist that? Sterling had a sleep over at ours last night to watch the State of Origin. What a cracker of a game – well done to...

A bit bumpier today with a few gentle waves coming in, but.. ‘even more fun with lumps,’ according to Jeff with a J! Another beautiful morning down at Cabbage Tree bay with water 20.4 and the air a balmy 19 degrees! Even Miguel Maestre, the ‘Crazy Bull’ and celebrity chef is getting addicted to this...

Weather report was for another summerish day – expected high of 28 (yes it is just 4 days until winter), no rain, but light cloud cover.    The 111 or so swimmers who turned up today were not disappointed. It was lovely to see a few old regulars this morning. With the water temp a...

Pre-dawn ferries   Over the water   Social interaction, both in and out of the water is perhaps the major attraction of Bold & Beautiful Manly. Today’s pictures offer ample proof….. Booty camp   Sophie Sterling et al   Group of 3   Mr & Mrs 500kms today Rob   Into the water with the...

A good workman never blames them, so despite their abundance, my lack of inspiration/material for todays blog, is not the fault of either of these tools 😉     It was a beautiful morning …. With happy people …   Sadly, thats where my observations of the morning ended … but … It did at least bring an end to the age old argument...

190 Swimmers 8 newbies, welcome to you all. 20.5C in the water   If you only do one thing today (Apart from swim!), please click on the LINK to donate to the Bear Cottage big swim. Some of our B&B’ers are swimming from Manly to Bondi 14km! in aid of The local Manly hospice for...