506 ticked Bold and Beautiful swimmers experienced a beautiful Anzac Day service this morning down on the beach in our favourite corner of the world, before a simply glorious swim… A magnificent sunrise to greet us this morning. A few of us attended the service put on by the Surf Club at 6am and saw...

Here it is…..the sun came up!! LOVELY and flat…  This lady came all the way from CRONULLA for the swim!!!!  Elaine is now doing the photography for a Massage Magazine….here she is with Magic Hand’s and Anna! Ooh here’s another shot of Elaine cuddling up with a MYSTERY MAN!! It is DEFINITELY colder!! Colourful Sheilas!...

On mornings such as this, a favourite stanza comes to mind: Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.   In the...

After more technical issues New Blogger Joe Earl had to abandon ship and pass on the photos fo me (Lesley) to upload. Here is what he put together below – ALL credit goes to Joe as he took on FULLY the task of blogger, camera in hand all ready to go this morning! The words...

Today, the clouds parted and we noticed that two B&B regulars tend to crop up in every photo! Blog tarting hasn’t got anything on these two!!! Enter Les and Ted in their time machine….. When reviewing today’s photo’s we’ve noticed these two popping up in so many photos….keep an eye out through today’s blog.  ...

104 of Manly’s finest got out of their (or possibly someone else’s) bed this morning to scenes which many of us have become attached to over the last 4 years! You know the water is going to be beautiful and warm – what are you waiting for??          ..and let’s face it,...

Do you have a bucket list? One of our swimmers, Sebastian Terry, decided after the death of a close friend to put pen to paper and re-create a long-forgotten list of 100 things. His eclectic and highly personalised list contains getting shot as well as raising $100,000 for Camp Quality, and has seen him travel...

130 Bold & Beautiful swimmers swam in warm, crystal clear water today amongst  lion fish, bannerfish, turtles, duskies, rays and the nicest bunch of people you could wish to meet! And 2 beautiful birthday swimmers, Greg Mc Donaugh and Toni Jackson. Happy birthday!!!Sparkles below with our lion fish. Ahhh…Manly… Conditions look perfect. Fifi manages a...

 124 Bold and Beautiful swimmers enjoyed another great start to their day!! A bit of a wave out there!!! Arrgh!! This wave got me big time! Took my cap and goggles – it hit me right smack in da face and then held me under! Thanks to DWSS AKA Dolphin Whisperer AKA Shaun, for seeing...

Stumbling out of bed today, I grumbled at the concrete grey skies and very big rain drops.  I’m sure I wasn’t the only one because we were a very modest 61 swimmers this morning! By 6.50am it was evident that it was a day for the seriously committed! Lesely couldn’t wait to try out a...