Friday 19 July 2019 Activation

Activated seeds and nuts are better than normal ones. If your glutes are not  activated you can have ankle problems. When you do yoga and swimming , you need to activate your core. What could activate you more than being down at Manly for an ocean swim. The surfers got a small turn and now it is over to me – Lake Manly is what I love

Ranya with friends is a newbie

Activating the wetwuit

Early swimmers help on the shower scene front

Here is Mike on the right who is a newbie swimmer

Anything goes on the cap front and rash vests. Just enjoy the swim

20 swims in the bag!!!

Footy swimmers – makes me think of ice baths

Activate your joy to start the day well

Lots of good elbows today but this is the photo that turned out

Look at moi – I found a fin

Management notices:

5 exquisite newbies

swimmers: 220

The Monthly Dinner – 13^th August 2019 – Guest Speaker

The Next B&B monthly dinner for the year will be held on Tuesday 13th August at 6.30 pm at Bluewater Restaurant. Our guest on the night will be B&B Swimmer, Duncan Young, who is the head of health and wellbeing for Lendlease. The title of Duncan’s talk will be ‘Does the ideas of living to 100 excite you or fill you with dread?’ He will speak about ‘living and working in the age of longevity’, what can we learn from super-agers about elongating our healthy lifespans? Don’t miss this very interesting presentation.

Please book early for this event as it is sure to be popular. The cost of the dinner is great value at only $25 a head, which includes shared entrees, and a selection of mains to choose from (including a vegetarian option). Glasses of beer or wine and desserts are also available at the special price of only $5 each. Numbers are limited, so bookings are essential. To avoid disappointment and secure your spot please book at www.boldandbeautifulmanly.com.au/bb-bluewater-monthly-dinner.html

Here’ s an idea that B&B swimmers who live in the Manly electorate might like to support – A Festival of Seaweed!

The Sydney Institute of Marine Science together with Dorset and Anne put forward an idea for a science, art, food festival around seaweed.  and they are now at the stage of promoting the project to locals to encourage their vote. It’s through the NSW Government Generation fund.  The community submit  projects for review, but the decision as to which project receives funding rests with the Manly electorate community who are able to vote for their preferred projects. They are now at the stage of promoting the project to locals to encourage their vote. All the information is on the SIMS website – see link below with all the detail, including relevant links for voting, plus the attached document

http://engonet-sims.azurewebsites.net/news/77/my-community-project

PHOTO FOR JAMES PITTAR

A fellow swimmer, who is very well known around the traps, James Pittar is hoping one, or many, of our wonderful swimming photographers would take an action shot of him swimming in the ocean for the front cover of his nearly completed Autobiography ”Blind Vision”.

James is blind and has a phenomenal swimming record from representing Australia to swimming the English Channel and the Cook Strait to name only a couple of his phenomenal achievements.

What a great opportunity to be able to contribute to the front cover of his book !  Obviously the photographer of the selected photo will be credited for such in the book.

James will of course need the high resolution version of the chosen photograph so that it will be good enough equality.

James will come down to swim with B&B in the hope for the photoshoot this Saturday morning, 20th July.

If any / all of our budding photographers would like to help James with the perfect action photo of him swimming.  Please…. join in and snap some shots either by swimming or paddling alongside him, or from the walkway if you have a big lens.

What I have been reading:

A detective story – As the Crow Flies – which has a thin plot and features a detective who climbs. I finished the Big Sky by Kate Atkinson and found it a bit light. And not easy to read because there were so many characters that I could not, in my tired state, keep up with why all of a sudden say Vince appeared on the boat. Anyway.