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...

75 Bold & Beautiful swimmers saw Dolphins today, did you? I’m sure they will be here again tomorrow, so get down to Manly at 7am!   The ocean wasnt sure this morning, generally flat but with a few sneaky waves in between Some were ready for an arctic expedition! Me and Snorkles were simply keeping...

Winter’s here, the weather and water are fantastic, we’re having a ball! It’s fun mixing and matching, Ugg’s & polka dot bikinis – anything goes.   Venturing out the golden ball of sunshine about to clear the horizon – life’s a ball. Mother and daughter chilling together – what a ball… Ester Williams died last...

I’m too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt So sexy it hurts…   And I’m too sexy for Milan too sexy for Milan New York and Japan And I’m too sexy for your party Too sexy for your party No way I’m disco dancing I’m a model you know what I mean...