What an amazing swim this morning.  With the water temperature climbing over the last couple of days is was a leisurley paddle in the water this morning, even for the people wearing wetsuits.  My feet didn’t even get cold so that’s a good indicator of the warmer temps. The early sunrise and warmer temps are...

No, not that blue! The mighty blue of Dublin, Ireland!!! Our blues won arguably the biggest sporting event of the year in Ireland last night beating Mayo to win the Sam Maguire cup in Gaelic Football. The county has gone crazy! Congrats to the boys and commiserations to the green and red army of the...

 What an amazing start to the day. Clear blue skies and clearer waters. If you are not managing to get up to see the sunrise these days here is a shot this morning.  Only two more weeks to go before daylight savings then we can swim morning and night. 😉 Just a reminder about meeting...

Friday is here after an “interesting” week… the Ocean has settled a bit and we’re back to sunny mornings and temps in the mid 20s. This is the scene at 5:47am…       Most of the brown foam is gone and it’s nice and warm as we gather in our favourite spot.    ...

It was all happening at Manly early this morning. There were surfers, joggers, paddlers, dog walkers, boxers…and a pod of 106 pink capped swimmers all getting their dose of Vitamin Sea, work out, circulation boost and endorphin release :-)!! Our swim must tick all the boxes! Quite a few early swimmers today. Here are the...

The weather made a huge turn around today with a warm start to the morning. While the air was warm the surf still felt a little cold to me. Maybe I am just reclimatizing.  The wild surf yesterday has kept some swimmers away with only 83 of us this morning.  It was a challenging swim,...

 Only 39 swimmers turned up today! Actually that sounds like a lot but only about half of them went for a swim as it was definitely NOT enticing! Temp came in at 18.7…. i think? Even Winston wasn’t his usual self! Some really big waves… The water came all the way up to the walkway!...

What’s up swim fans!!! Welcome to another episode of the 2nd worse swim blog in Manly with your resident Monday blogster, newly decorated with his WWW and Winter badges 🙂 (Yep, just rehashing yesterdays photo from Sharon!)   It doesnt really matter what you do before work, as long as you get your back side...

A busy swim this morning, maybe because 284 swimmers qualified for their ‘Cold and Beautiful 2013’ badge earlier this year and can’t wait to pick up their sew on badge or badges later this morning! Straight after our dip in the ocean!     But we did swim before the ceremony. Here’s the Resident Teddy...