Siyabona ( I see you / hello) I love the colour pink and today we celebrating pink in my blog. Pink cappers, Barbie and Ken, Pink the band, pink hues, pink BnB budgies, pink jimbles, pink skins after stings, pinko liberals,pink lipstick, pink cheeks, the first blush of youth/summer … even Guy got the memo...

It was a fun frolic in the waves for some of us this morning! Other swimmers braved the surf, currents and threat of Jimbles and others went to halfway or Shelly. Water felt a lot warmer at 20.3 but if you’re only in for 10 minutes like me it would wouldn’t it! Merrilee and Kathryn...

Kiwi bros Kiss kiss Enjoy stay safe Simon    

Wednesday 15th November – 2 weeks until Summer (and the summer badge blast commences)), 4 weeks until the B&B Xmas party, 6.5 weeks to go for this year and holiday time!   Seems like everyone and everything is “feeling it” from the weather to swimmers to canines and felines and everyone & everything in between.   Even...

What a morning! We had sunshine, calm water, no stingers and fair visibility. It was a beautiful swim with water temp at 18.1. A lot of regular swimmers were back from overseas trips like Dr Michele above who did the entire Comino walk with partner Martin! These are the 5.48amers that are swimming to Shelly...

5 B&B CHRISTMAS PARTY   B&B Christmas Party is back again this year !! The Party will be held on Monday 11th December from 6 pm at Bucketty’s Brewing Co, 26 Orchard Rd, Brookvale. All swimmers and partners/friends are welcome (no under 18s unfortunately). The theme is simply “Christmas”, so come dressed in your finest Christmas paraphernalia. The music this year will again be provided...

  Like some sort of horrendous gender reveal party, today there was a sprinkling of pink (jimbles) and blue (blue bottles) around. Some swimmers reported nil sightings and others reported stings.   But the swim was magnificent   Clare is visiting from the Gold Coast! FFF on land Chad As usual, I asked everyone about...

One word. Joy. So good to have Andre back amongst us. Sophia also back after a very civilized European visit..including a half marathon. Well done. Also back is the action event of the week… the FFF… remember 625am on the ramp. Every Friday. Blocky lays down the rules, we do our best to break them....

Wednesday 25th October – seemed full of “weirdness” for some reason.  Firstly the sky was weirdly eerie – a red dawn followed by a thickening cloud stealthily slowly blanketing the city from the south, transforming the seas from calm to calamity …. Perhaps also due to the advent of “Scorpio season”  (which started on Monday)...