This is winter in Australia. Many of our swimmers, including myself, hail from other corners of the world, and let me just tell ya’ll, today is like a rather lovely Swedish summer’s day. 177 of us turned up to take part in our daily ritual, which was executed in water holding 18.8 degrees. We had...

123 Bold and Beautiful swimmers in Winter on a week day is just brilliant! And why wouldn’t you swim at this time of year, with the beautiful conditions continuing! Starting off the blog with my favourite photo this week of us all swimming off from The Point. Doesn’t it look dramatic? Isn’t this the most...

Another BEAUTIFUL AMAZING morning! Billy has his showering technique down pat!    It’s getting colderrrrrrrrrrrrr Wonderful sunrise…. BnB Funny Moments Snorkels (right) saw Rainer aka Lips stuffing something in his budgies – she came to have a look as I was aiming my camera and my camera smacked her on the nose! (Lips grabbed my...

  Welcome to Sighday.  The frenetic energy of the weekend has dissipated; the Monday blues are so yesterday; Tuesday is the day to breathe deeply and soak in the remarkable molten gold of today’s sunrise. Don’t know if it is the badge or the addiction of winter swimming, but there were 101 swimmers throwing themselves...

260 Bold & Beautiful swimmers took the day off just to swim with the Monday blogger today. Apparently it was also some old bird called Lizzie’s birthday too.     Emer and Evonne were celebrating too, Day 1 of Melbourne Marathon training for October…good luck girls! Superfit Sarah is in training too, for the world...

It’s the second week of winter.. the days are short and inspired by having a professional photographer with us for the last week, I thought today would be best summed up in a sort pictorial essay… Also I have to get to golf 🙂 250 awesome sswimmers turned up in the second week of winter...

Is there life before coffee? That’s this week’s deeply philosophical question. James pictured above shows proof of life, and some. And below, scientific evidence that more than four double shots preswim can indeed be  reckless. Eh, Ian?   To be fair, this swim group probably doesn’t accurately reflect the 7am winter morning state of the...

111 swimmers this morning on the first Thursday of Winter… It’s been a week of more than 100 swimmers every day, many without a wetsuit. Some think it’s agony feeling that first cold wave but the ecstasy of the hot water bottle after the swim, wow!!!! John K shares the love with Bella! The ‘Drinks...

It’s always worth getting down here for the great sunrises we are seeing lately! (Thanks to photographer Giles for helping me with this one!!) And Emer’s happy face… And do a bit of YMCA’ing Good thing they are wearing wetsuits – they got to Shelly so fast wearing them they have to wait around for...