All of our swims are special but once in a while everything comes together…The sun rises over Cabbage Tree Bay putting on a fantastic display of colours, the water temperature is warm and ocean calm maybe with a gentle wave and the visibility is beautifully clear with loads of fish swimming amongst us…Us bloggers have...

One of the many things I love about the swim is you never know what is going to be out there each day!!  That thought used to scare me but now it’s what brings me down nearly every morning! There is so much to see! So I put together the below video of photos of...

I was chatting to an Englishman last sunday night who was visiting Australia for the first time and, while visiting some friends on a farm in WA, it started to rain and he said it was the first time he had ever heard people cheer at the sound of rain.  So while it was another...

It was one of those mornings; dark, raining and, of course, Monday.  No amount of willing the fluro digits on the clock to stand still had any effect.  Arriving in Manly the beach front is crawling with blokes in fluro jackets busily dismantling the stands erected for the Surf Carnival.  The rain eases just as...

  Looks a bit wintery this morning! Though thankfully the air temp not yet!   You can’t see from this photo but the waves were big enough for discussions of perhaps halfway! Sometimes it’s not so much the size of the wave as more they speed and strength of them that can make it hard...

Well, what a gloomy start to the day.  There weren’t many people around when I got to Manly this morning, so I thought that it might bring the numbers down.  I was so suprised when so many people started showing up.  We definitely are a dedicated bunch.  You can always be guaranteed to be greated...

Happy Friday morning everyone! From Kara at Heart Research Australia:   Well I did it! I managed to make it down on time to issue out the red caps for your red cap swim for Heart Research Day. I was so pleased to see a sea of red at 7:05 as you all headed out,...

 How lucky are we to swim across a Marine Reserve? Cabbage Tree Bay is attracting more species of fish, larger numbers and even friendlier fish according to Belinda, the Marine ecologist who spoke to us on Tuesday night at the monthly B&B Bluewater Cafe dinner. I found her talk riveting and it just made me...

A stack of Drink’s Express swimmers this morning!   Rare sighting No 1: Snorkles here on a weekday!?!?!? Rare sighting No 2: JP – but it’s probably coz it’s his birthday today! 🙂 Jane heading down…she still turns up most days despite her plantar fasciitis!   Speaking of Jane, her son in law, Al Del Bene,...

For an intimate crowd of around 90 swimmers it was business as usual down at the beach.  So quiet after the weekend of many hundreds! Cloud cover and howling winds might have deterred some, but all was peaceful in our corner of Manly.   By a little after 6 the booty camp was in full...