Welcome to CTBAR Fitness Centre – 78 of you turned up this morning 🙂   A fitness centre unlike others, it’s free and open all year round to anyone who likes to join in. At CTBAR (Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve) we offer physical exercise, meditation, marine wildlife watching, social chit chat and general mental...

82 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A fun and friendly swim with plenty of bounce to kick start the morning.         Pretty good viz today with lots of fiddler rays, duskies, yellowtail, gropers and 2 super-sized goatfish enjoying their morning visitors. Plus a new species discovered by Nick D… a side table lamp...

78 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A spectacular morning: calm, clear, colourful and totally comfy… Lots of Eastern Fiddler Rays and schools of juvenile fish out and about this morning. It’s not only the swimming we lurve… 😉 There’s Alex’s imaginary friends too. 13 swimmers enjoyed a relatively light ghost train lap this morning, below is...

At least 56 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. What a gorgeous swim this morning !!!  Sooooo smooth with a burst of orange breaking the horizon just as we entered the water.  Spectacular all round 🙂       8 swimmers enjoyed the ghost train at 6.30am; 5 into Shelly and 3 up to Queensie.  It is...

85 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. The ocean was a silky smooth blanket this morning making for a beautiful swim with reasonable visibility and a little ‘electricity’ to make you dance at Shelly…       Only Gaetan and Michael braved the early lap and 5 swimmers continued on after the regular swim to enjoy a...

At least 121 cold and beautiful swimmers on this sunny Saturday morning Not long to go now until daylight saving ends, so another week of pretty dawns, then some more light again to send us on the right course to Shelly Beach.   There must’ve been something wrong with the camera or the technology somewhere…...

92 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Absolutely beautiful swimming conditions this morning with blue skies and calm seas behind the lovely waves. Just a few of this morning’s smiles 🙂         Soooo much activity this morning which is seriously impressive seeing as though it’s autumn and one week out from the end of...

50 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. It was all fingers and toes in the dark this morning… With everyone happy to be out enjoying the ocean along with the sunrise that was right on 7am as we entered the water, although it was a little hard to tell with all the cloud. Midge started the ocean...

93 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. A fun swim with a lovely wave to start and finish and a bit of entertainment in between, a bit like being on a treadmill in places… kinda going nowhere fast 😉       There’s always a golden lining to every swim…     Jenny K found a barnacled...

65 Bold & Beautiful swimmers. Brightening up the morning with a beautiful undulating swim across the bay 😉       An amazing ball of bait fish swirling around in a blur just before the point. A wave to Timberlie with his mega lens at the point 😉 Then off to Shelly with the huge...