**Update – The pictures from this morning’s swim can be seen at the below link. You dont even need an Facebook account to view** https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151593410108708.1073741826.598963707&type=1&l=5fe691dcc2   A record breaking 143 swimmers for a “Non-Holiday”, “Non Summer”, standard Monday morning swim! Unfortunately our Blogging system Typepad is not allowing me to upload any photos from this...

Ole Father Time plays tricks with those Bold & Beautiful members that don’t own automatically updating devices telling them its time to get up and have fun! With the sun rising at 6:12 AM this morning, there’s no longer an excuse to stay in bed as by 7AM its LIGHT and BRIGHT! 211 people worked...

The Glorious Workers of the Bold and Beautiful Peoples Swimming Party would like to extend an invitation to Kim Jong Un and the people of North Korea. Take time out from your nuclear war and come down to Manly for the swim of a lifetime (however short that may be.) It might look a little...

This week is the last one in morning darkness for a while. It can be a challenge to tip that sorry old bod out of bed and try not to make too much noise because you don’t want to wake up the birds. But it’s been said before (and yes I’ll say it again); you...

Only 32 ‘hardcore’ swimmers swam today in English beer kinda water, flat and warm…It hasn’t rained at 7am on a Thursday morning since I started my Thursday blog spot 4 months ago. Infact I’ve been boasting about the amazing weather on Thursdays for weeks. Today it was dark, rainy and miserable at 7am…But it brightened...

59 stalwarts of the Bold & Beautiful community decided that rain was not a good enough reason to stay in bed. Now from our initial viewpoint it didnt look promising to the Australians. However to an Irishman, I have to be honest that I was a little teary-eyed as it reminded me of Irish summers...

There are lots of great things about swimming before sunrise.   The one I particularly like is the abundance of car spots on the beach front. Yeah!! Then there is the welcoming committee, and the opportunity to catch up with everyone. Looks like Greg has been practicing his photo bombing moves. While to the uninitiated...

We couldn’t believe ouR luck!! ANOTHER humpback whale joined us this morning! There were so many of us too! HOW LUCKY ARE WE!!! Sucked-in if you slept in this morning!! hahahaha HAHA April Fools!! No whale… but a WHALE of a morning! Loads of us! And the conditions were PERFECT!!! CLEAR – WARM – FLAT...

There’s craziness in the air with the full moon last night – deciding to hang around to see us off this morning… a few cloudy heads from the soiree at Manly Wine last night. Nothing like a swim to Shelley to clear out the cobwebs on a holiday weekend. Why would you go away? There’s...