B&B Blog – Monday 23 December 2024   Typepad Not working see blog @ B&B Facebook page Big crowd, water clarity down, great wave home.   I swam at 6am with this crew.   James forced to remove cheat pants. 3 boys post 6am swim. Panoramic crowd@7am. Family of 3 from Queensland before & after...

Caroline’s Pitch Report It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 🎄🎅🎁🎉🍾 festive cheer all around 6am and our corner is soooo busy! By the time Dx are ready to get in, it’s pumping 🏊‍♀️ 🏊‍♂️ 🏊 7am – and it’s as crowded as a 24h rave 🕺 Bay is flattttttt 🐟🐠🐡 Visibility is almost...

The sea came up the ramp. Very high tide. the sand is disappearing. Swimming was fun though

When the Manly rip is working & the surf is pumping here is our favourite swim out for a more relaxing though somewhat bumpy swim. Today I loved the silvery seas shimmering across the bay this morning The jellyfish tribe with Caroline finished their Shelley swim with a coffee at the Boathouse. Sue caught up...

It’s Saturday, no it’s not, it’s just really busy. Hard to find a park. Here I go, out to sea again Friday’s Fast Fives are queued up. Anyone can join, not a clubby thing, just come to the ramp at 6.25am. Look for the good looking roosters in their FFF budgies! The sunshine fills my...

Manly put on a great day for 1 November 2024 – nice gently waves, over 20 temperature and zero bluebottles in the water.

It’s 19.3 in the water. Swell and waves and building numbers of surfers at the point. Frangi complains how the ocean is not conforming to his predictable predictions. My heart is a muscle and it pumps blood. Like a big old black steam train Trooper (aka Bev but mainly known as Bevan McBevan) and our...

Summer is back. The FFF are back. Bluebottles are back! But not in the waves, where joy and ranting and running are the essence of our morning. If you want to join the FFF, come on Fridays… 6.29am on the ramp… and then we make our way 100m down the beach to the starting line....

Wednesday 16th October – another almost perfect day to swim those extra kilometres, whether you are training for an event, or general exercise infusing morning vitamin sea, or simply to search for sea life or capture that “money shot”… today was a great day for all of the above and so much more.     ...