Yet another spectacular winters morning in Sydney and with the surf  settling down to a gentle 2 to 3 foot it was perfect for swimming. The water was a little chilly but with spring just around the corner life can only get rosier for all the brave souls who have weathered the winter without wetsuits...

Yes today is celebrated for St Sithney, the patron saint of mad dogs! While mad dogs and englishmen go out in the midday sun, us Bold & Beautiful prefer the 7am Winter sunrise – accompanied by our own mad dogs, Tui, Turbo, Billy Boy, Winston, Layla, Coco and Baci to name a few!   Another...

No where of course… When I tell people that I swim in the ocean during Winter, they look at me strangly and tell me I must be crazy.   Early last year I never imagined that I would be doing this. I used to jog along the promenade and watch the swimmers swim across to...

Todays blog  title comes to us courtesy of Andrew “Magic Hands” Maher – Named after the first pic where the waves look a little like stairs. It’s easy to see why he’s number one with the ladies – I wish i could come up with stuff like that.    He just happens to be one...

109 brave and happy swimmers turned up today on the 1st August for another swim in paradise…Toni J insisted on this title for today’s blog. We are talking about a big fiddler ray, eagle ray, wobbegong,  port jackson and porcupine fish! Another sensational Thursday sunrise. Happy August everyone! A few waves to wake up the...

Believe it or not this is perfect “swimming with whale weather”! Each whale visit has been on days like this, so a very good reason to get out of bed even though you really don’t want to! As Mari, one of our swimmers, said this morning ” I was lying in bed thinking “no way”...

You may not have realised it, but yesterday was warmer than our last Christmas Day by two degrees!!  We enjoyed 24 degrees in Sydney in the middle of winter. The spectacular sunrises continue.  How spoilt are we to be welcomed to the daily swim by this magnificent display of colour and light. Today there were...

Were you one of the lucky 96 swimmers who rocked up this morning?  An amazing morning don’t you think?   One could almost be forgiven for thinking that winter is so last week. The water has climbed to 17.5 degrees – that is 1.1 degrees in the past week.  Even as we assembled like seals basking...

The film crew was out early today to see the recovery after the “Great Gatsby Ball” Brilliant colours Ian and John early as always Another early starter What a sunrise!     Here they come John and friend recovered from the ball   Ted looking cool     Warming up Simon signing up a new...

I hope that everyone is in the mood for a ball of a time starting this morning. With 206 keen swimmers on a glorious winters days we are off to a great start. I came across some old pics that I thought that I would share with you all to get you in the mood...