Oh darling.   Words are not enough. But these photos speak a thousand, as does the fact that 340 Bold & Beautiful swimmers came to farewell Julie and Michael and to wish Julie a happy birthday too. 13 people did the early Boulderdash to Queenscliff, and we had 28 (!) first time swimmers. Today’s blog...

151 Bold and Beautiful swimmers enjoyed a beautiful swim once again. 3849 swimmers missed out as conditions were magnificent! It was a bitter-sweet swim,  as tomorrow Jules and Michael leave us to head off to Perth. Look at what we had to swim across today! It’s a hard life! They are going to miss this...

Top tip to other bloggers: don’t do the blog on someone else’s computer – I feel as stressed out as E-Laine! 😀 Anyway so basically nothing is in order, the photos are not ‘enhanced’ or have any of my usual additions! 😀 However it doesn’t matter because the swim is the reason we were there...

162 Fantastic and Fresh from Holidays B&B swimmers went back to work this week.. celebrating all the way with a beautiful flat water swim in Lake Manly. For all of you who couldn’t make it down this morning, let’s just set the scene… All smiles this morning … some of the regulars returning..    ...

We had a cracking evening yesterday at Jonny & Di’s beautiful home in Clontarf to say goodbye to Jules & Michael. There was food, drink, singing and a special video too. Thank you to our amazing hosts, Im looking forward to popping over regularly for a sunset view and a glass of vino…. 😉 Jules...

I’ll start with a quote because i know you’re a cultured lot. “sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” ― henry wadsworth longfellow A cautionary  word of warning. Dont drink beer, tequila, margaritas, red wine and then more beer the night before your due to swim and blog. NOT...

278 B&B Swimmers rolled up this morning. You can tell it’s going to be another hot one right here in beautiful Manly by the hazy air that hung all over the southern end of the beach where we get together every morning at 7am. 31 thought that today would be the perfect day to start...

If you were the producer of a new health and lifestyle TV show, who would you go and see first? No, not the Liposuction Ladies in Cronulla, try again. That’s right, you’d be doing what Channel 7 did this very morning, you’d be interviewing Wilf Deck, proudly the B&B swimmer with the most number of years...

119 ticked Bold and Beautiful swimmers decided the swim would be worth it even if we did cop the odd sting from the pink stinging jellyfish. Just another challenge and yes it was absolutely worth it! 3 Bolderdashers. 9 Early lappers at 6.30am and 8 Swimmers who did a Double. Once again, on a cloudy,...

 Congratulations to Herman Kuipers! Also hello to Jenny from Dubbo on her first swim with us! She didn’t quite make 4000th BUT even better, this swim is on her Bucket List! She’s very happy to have finally done it AND she swam there and back!! Well Done Jenny! Really high tide this morning – perfect...