It’s Easter Monday aka “Bright Monday”, which is customarily a day for visiting family and friends and “day drinking”. For the The Bold & Beautiful EVERY day is Bright Monday because most swimmers spend more time drinking than swimming. In Manly the choice for cafe chatter is unlimited, but here are some of my apres swim favourites… Havana….....

Eggstra special swimmers turned up the for the great annual egg hunt. Once a year, on a very importants weekend we enjoy an eggstravaganza of a swim. Here’s my Easter montage 😉       Keep your eyes peeled for the yolks and the eggs, they’re everywhere ….you just gotta look for them. Firstly a...

Former Monday blogster reporting for duty. And the story of the day, amazingly, was not that I was back. Or royalty. It was waves….     ……Lots of waves……       …..Bold and Beautiful dumping waves…   But even though some of us are IRONMAN standard like Sarah Eade (Congrats again!)   Make sure...

Bishop of Manly here… What a privilege to swim with you fine people every morning. Mine starts with a 6:45am wake up, check on my daughter and kiss my beautiful wife good morning…   Then down to end of the street to be greeted this. Let there be light!   Here we find Hon securing...

After all those storms yesterday and rain over night I was surprised to see how nice it was down at the beach this morning!! See pic 1 The water is still warm thank god!! The air a bit chilly… Jumpers and jackets are coming out again … Soon it’ll be the uggs!! ………………..…………………………………… Ian would...

With the changing season there are some people out there who start to slip a little deeper under the doona.  Not us! We laugh as the thermometer displays 11 degrees. . . Well at least 85 of us did today. The grey morning with rain out to sea has become a bit repetitive these past...

(BnB Trivia night – more info at end of blog)   You shared this morning, you and the ocean, and both were changed by that. But look back as you exit the shallows.  Turn around as fast as you can, try to catch a trace that you were there.  Just swirls and curls and whispers...

It was a big day yesterday … whilst you are all waiting with great anticipation for my poorer cousins to arrive on Easter Weekend, I was toasting my own long established title, with a long lunch at Pilu.   Consequently, the only the swimming going on with me today is in my belly and a...

This is my first and possibly my last blog as other duties prevail upon me (we do need a Saturday blogger though and I tell you that this effort only took15 minutes so get involved). The photos below tell a multitude of stories and I will start by emphasizing the philosophy of the Bold and...