Dear B&B swimmers – all 166 of you down there today – how good was that swim?  This morning beautiful golden sun bathed the bay with its warming rays.  Not at all the prediction given by the weather report at 6am this morning. Another welcome sight was the Manly Council tractor!  Is the weed monster...

  As with life projects in general, sometimes the day starts with doom and gloom. This morning, there was rain and dark, grey skies, but 210 Bold & Beautiful swimmers were undeterred. We had 13 brand spanking new swimmers, three who did the Bolderdash and as many as 26 doing the 6km option. The now...

OK let’s see….. Friday (tick) ….. Warm (tick) …..Flat and glassy (tick) …. Clear (tick)…. There’s no other way to break the news… this was NOT a good day to sleep in … it was a 9/10…. Here’s LSA and Jalna heading off for the Boulderdash – Without John S, who got a better offer apparently!...

Happy Valentines Day Everybody! 97 lucky buggars turned up today. The sky even turned a romantic pink and purple for us and put us in the mood for lurv, or rather a swim in silky, calm waters… Thursday mornings, since I’ve been blogging, just always seem to turn out just beautiful. I’m very lucky. This...

Jenny Knapman forgot to take the water temperature!!! It’s a disaster!!! Actually that’s not true it was me that didn’t take it – coz to be honest 007 John Bond usually takes it but he didn’t turn up?? Anyway it’s not the end of the world (although Michael Christie might think so!)…. I can tell...

While the beautiful summer sun was conspicuously absent this morning, each of the 74 swimmers arriving for the daily dip received a bright smile from the sunny welcoming committee. Technique was a topic of conversation while we waited in the gently drizzle for the 7am summons.  Lesley was waxing lyrical on swimming technique (she is...

Everything about the swim today was a bit chilled out and relaxed. 73 Bold & Beautiful swimmers will agree Im sure….this morning it was all nice and calm. I only realised later on that it was due to the amount of weed. (I mean seaweed, obviously) This board paddler was trying to figure out how to get...

OK, It’s a quick short blog im afraid. It wasn’t raining, the waves were small and the ocean didn’t smell of run off – all positive points. I assumed it would be a pleasant to enjoyable swim. Wrong… Everyone set off in brave B&B fashion unaware of the army that awaited around the corner. It...

Happy Saturday everyone! Good morning Manly! Everyone is up and about this morning… These are the mornings we dream about…The sun was up at 6:24am and it only got down to 21.6c last night. 243 of us (inc 23 new swimmers) thought it was time to start living the dream!   There was the usual...

As Anna the Super Friday Blogger is away today – I am doing a really quick fill in for her! Weather wise it was a lovely start to the day – out in the water however… was choppy and churny – not that it stopped us though! The water was warm and our jelly friends...