A moody blue morning greets us. A waft from a local bakery lingers. A full moon sets. Beauty I’d always missed. With these eyes before.   First light is 6.31am but they are pushing off strobing blue and green, just after 6am. Sam adjusts a dog light. Hey you with the pretty face. Welcome to...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY RUNNING DUE TO THE RISKS OF CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19). Thank you for following public health advice at all times.   Water temp: 17.9 Winter Swimming B&B is still bound by Covid 19 restrictions with which we are determined to comply. So, for the near future, B&B’s operations will continue to...

Dumela ( hello in SeSotho) Winter swimming brings out the fashionista in us all. Or perhaps it buries it. I asked the crew to show their winter apparel on our SLC catwalk. Rocking it on the SLC catwalk Angie Ali and Sadie     Birthday girl and legendary fast fish Jenny surrounded  by models Sean,...

Cuttlefish photo bombardment continues! Won’t be too long now before these gorgeous creatures start to die off as both males and females die after mating and only live to 1-2 years! This was the lovely Lisa Peresan last week being swallowed by a Giant Cuttlefish 😉 Thank you Tim Keith for the title of today’s...

After a weekend of rain we were presented with the perfect window of paradise this morning; the sun rising and shining for just long enough to get the swimmers in and the camera’s out. But thats not all that was out today. With a quick glance around the ‘battlefield’ one couldn’t help notice it strewn...

5amish mobile phone tells me to get up. The rain was driving. The wind relentless. The windows rattled in the house and in the car. The surf was huge. Actually the waves weren’t – they were huge at every other northern beaches – Queenscliff, Freshie, Curlie and all up the coast  but we had our...

Up with the birds   Winter surfers   Bed or Beach the winter quandary, the never ending “will I or won’t I?”. The blog drove me from the warm sheets to the cool sand, to greet a gorgeous winter morning. A few less people than average, swimmers and surfers,  some meditating some sand running. Subtle...

A winter swim. Clear water. Temperature falling. The swimmers arrived today in large numbers (swimming individually at a time of their choosing) to swim under a clear winter sky. Taking off warm clothes and revealing swimmers underneath or wrangling into the wetsuit. Swimmers have their locations and swim times. They have their preferred goggles. Some...

BOLD & BEAUTIFUL IS NOT CURRENTLY RUNNING DUE TO THE RISKS OF CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19). Thank you for following public health advice at all times.   Sources: Visual Ecology and Functional Morphology of Cubozoa (Cnidaria)1 | Integrative and Comparative Biology | Oxford Academic (oup.com) South Western Stinger Factsheet | Western Australian MuseumSouth Western Stinger Factsheet |...

In the Dolphin Blog today, they noted that they swam with Cheryl White today and with Simon, Danny, Julie and others on the long weekend. I just don’t know if they have any photos. We have photos of some of the beautifully bold people who swam today   Even if the Dolphins blog won’t have...