Jules Isbill, the founder of the Bold and Beautiful, and the driving force behind  this amazing, popular and successful group, joined us today after 5 months spent studying medicine in Perth. This daily drama is improving the quality of so many lives and we have Jules to thank for that. She is just a bit...

Glorious smiles welcomed the 68 brave B&B swimmers this morning. How could you feel anything other than inspired when greeted by this mob as we gather in our little corner of Manly. Rain looms on the horizon, but the cloud cover blankets us with a relatively warm 14 degrees as we commence the ritual disrobing for...

 The big waves are BACK!! A book light was donated by John Paul for the oldies to sign in! 😉 Yes most of us decided to go to half way!! It was still a beautiful sunrise Pink Tarts! On the way to half way! Even half way was getting pounded… It looked safe to go...

The morning news told us there was wild weather about.  Road closures, flooding, disrupted transport (frankly when isn’t transport disrupted?), king tides and dangerous surf! Just the sort of day you will find the intrepid B&B mob out for a swim. Actually, a modest 53 swimmers took the plunge today.  It was a real winter...

Here’s Sam. Today was his first swim with the aptly and appropriately named swim squad the Bold & Beautiful. Welcome Sam, I’m sure you’ll get used to our mixed bag of personalities soon. You met 154 of us this morning but there’s plenty more. Sam, you have started one of the most important chapters of...

 We must be having record numbers of Winter swimmers at the moment, a lot of us spurred on by the challenge of doing 20 swims in Winter and getting our Winter badge! 106 bold swimmers rocked up today on a cold, gloomy morning. Rusty is excited to be swimming, ‘Get out of bed and join...

I know this could be off-putting! And I bet some of you lay in bed thinking ‘NOONE would turn up in this weather, I’m staying in bed”! But we did! All 85 of us! As you can see we weren’t the only ones in there! Rainer Lips Noack – took the temperature. German Engineering at...

The eloquent Eleanor Roosevelt is quoted as saying, “Do one thing everyday that scares you.” Well, with sun rise at 6.59am, air temperature of 8 degrees and water temperature 18 degrees, there were 114 B&B swimmers prepared to shrug off the comfort zone and challenge themselves. The beauty of the sunrise can distract you for...