With the temperature set to reach a massive 43 degrees in Sydney today, 217 Bold and Beautiful swimmers decided that the beautiful blue Manly ocean was the best place to be! Although the media was forecasting ‘catastrophic conditions’ on land, it was anything but catastrophic in the water! We had 22 newbies joining us this morning, including...

This homeless man (From freshie I think) has an issue with Monday’s   So do these ladies (Apparently from Dee Why), they find it quite manic   Even my pet cat has a problem with the first day of the week   But really there is no reason to hate Monday’s even though everyone seems...

Today’s stats: Water temp: 21.5c Sunrise: 5:52am Sunset: 8:10pm Swimmers: Lots, so many the mathematicians are still counting. Several new swimmers today too. Almost at the magic 4000 number! OK, i’m winging this one big time. I didnt swim because i am (Harbourphobic) so this will be an interesting blog. Think of it more as...

The 5th Jan dawned like any other normal Saturday – 208 of Sydney’s finest showed up for a swim after a week of bluebottles and shark alarms but beautiful weather! Apparently the offending animal was no bigger than one of our cuddly duskies – which we liken to labradors for their friendly nature and willingness...

It is now quicker to list the people who DON’t  swim with the Bold & Beautiful, as that list only contains a handful of names. Today saw another Populus Aquaticus Majoris, which is the correct latin terminology for this type of marine phenomenon, and it contained a pod of 191 Homo Sapiens Nauticalus, 16 of which were of...

 Over 200 lucky Bold and Beautiful swimmers on the 3rd day of 2013. If you missed it today we feel sorry for you because the sky was beautiful, the water was silky and smooth and the company superb! A few fish and not a stinger in sight! Keep those New Year Resolutions going and try and...

I thought I would get up nice and early this morning and see what all this boulderdash stuff was about. Im still fairly new to the group and was a little apprehensive about swimming so far out to be honest, with a lot less “Chum” to surround me. The shutting down of the beaches yesterday...

    Today’s stats: Total Shelly swimmers: 105 New swimmers: 4 Bolderdashers: 4  Doublers: 4 2013 is the Chinese Year of the Water Snake –  “This is a water year”   What’s your New Year’s Resolution….  LOTS OF LOVE AND KISSES!!   New Year’s Day gathering at South Steyne – a beautiful day!!   Welcome...

223 Bold and Beautifulicious swimmers 2012 what an AMAZING, FANTASTIC year with Bold and Beautiful! And …another wonderful start to the day – DESPITE the title of this blog – it was a lovely swim! Well for myself, Fi, Anna, Thomas and John S…As we headed north instead of going to Shelly – too many blue...

Date: Sunday: 30th December 2012 Today’s stats: Regular shelly swimmers: 218 New swimmers: 28 Bolderdashers: 7 Double lappers: 19 Blog Tarts: 0 Stingers: 0 My last blog for 2012! Where does the time go? This morning was flat, warm and unstingy (for most people) and it was busy, busy busy. Ive been B&B swimming for...