Friday 25th: Wet ‘n’ Windy Stay-in-Beds

Blind Date – Only Twelve Chances!

Hall’s Bells!  Christmas is getting ever so stealthily closer.  Linda and Tim are keen and happy to put together a calendar for B&B again for 2016.  All our swimmers are welcome to submit their favourite photo(s).  Please note photos must be full resolution to stand any chance of making the calendar.

 

Email your submission direct to Manly Mac Art, as an attachment:

studio@manlymacart.com.au

(I’m not submitting the Shaun Cleo Centrefold)

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Invisible Thread?  Or – the Emperor’s New Clothes

Recent documented sighting of the off-the-grid badge … having been actually sewn on.  (Gutsy move)  Nick: “Where’d that other kid go?”

 

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Sterlo is Flying

Sterlo recently attached another string to his bow.  How to score the holeshot out off A-Team starting grid?   A stilled mind: No distraction – Set for action!  Shelley: “Hmmph.  He left shortly after.”

 

Early early Sundays

It’s always a very slow start on Sundays.  Only six a.m. as Brendan heads out, liberally coated in sun-bloc, to click off ten kays or more … look at those beautiful hues

 

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B&B Special Lecture Event

Lecture by Geremy Cliff (shark expert at the Natal Sharks Board in Durban, SA).  He will be amazed to meet all our swimming RSA friends  🙂

Next Monday:     28th September

7.00 pm:                Balgowlah RSL

Don’t miss this one-off opportunity to hear a world expert on sharks and shark attacks.  Geremy’s lecture is titled: “Sharing the sharks’ ocean: some personal perspectives after 35 years of shark research”

Entry fee for the lecture is $10 pp to cover room hire. Bar open for drinks – Bistro open from 5.30 pm (nil flake).  All welcome!   NB: please email Ian to reserve your spot – ugoboyo@gmail.com

But … why is he called ugoboyo?

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Winter Badge Raffle

Anne won the Hundred Bucks o’ Coffee.  She of fabulous hair.  (Gosh, I’d love to touch it.)

 

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Yet another healed jimble-strike – for the blog library …

 

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Today’s Conditions

As last few days’ wind kept on, the rain finally settled in overnight.  Which makes for cosy bedroom conditions … and a notably small turnout today.  But the rain has petered out by 6.30 – and water now looks perfect to me (in my nice, dry clothing).  Nice waves, and Queensy Bommie firing up.

 

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A forlorn and desolate place is the pegs-wall at day’s break …

 

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The 6.30 mob surging down ramp … can you spot Greg, Jimble and Rob in there?  Only Roberto and Sam are heading north today.

 

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Meanwhile, the Six A.m. Splitters have not yet left the water.  Why?  They are happily body surfing …

 

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Sixty-Thirties continue to storm the beachfront.  Kevin collected his Solstice Badge today.  Arrowed: Booty Brolly, for keeping kits dry.

 

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The Surf Club’s bronzed and iconic Joe returns from pre-dawn paddle …

 

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With clearance from 007, Ian Forster does Temp Reading this morning …

 

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Here is Midge; still bodysurfing her butt off at 6.50 a.m …

 

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McKnight steals a blinder of a cheat-start in the Booty sand sprints …

 

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Which brings one very pissed-off Thor thundering angrily forth from the sky.  (Singeing Xavier’s butt)

 

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John “Passes Out in Crowds” Bryan did a double yesterday.  And he’s back this morning, raring to go.  “Got to keep my heart firing,” he explains.

 

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Jackson sneaks salt into Fireman Ken’s coffee.  Kevin thinks this is great …

 

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Newbie Ammo is officially presented with his Pink Cap, and informed of the safety rules by The Right Builder …

 

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Help!  Bones is stuck.

 

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Ocean Sanctuaries: Battling on …

Our local dive shop owner and avid oceans campaigner Tricky Dicky is in a big article today’s Syd. Morning Herald.  It reads as though the Liberals may be backpedalling, and reducing size of oceanic sanctuaries …

 

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A-Team Interviews

Sterling Brain began swim training as a kid, doing two hours each morning at Palm Beach, in pool and sea – under watchful eye of the legendary Johnny Carter.  In school races, he was clocking 24.2s for 50 metres.  These days, at age 34, Sterlo can only manage a 24.8 for Fifty – which is enough to consistently flog all-comers at the daily A-Team home-sprint from Shelly.

 

He was asked to spearhead the Australian swim team for 2006 Olympics, but a shoulder injury caused his early withdrawal.  After a big break from the water, Sterlo returned to swimming in October 2008 (with us) and has swum every morning since.  He stunned everyone with his Anzac leg victory last year, stealing the limelight on what should have been George the Ghost’s day.

When not swimming during past 15 years, Sterling has been actively breeding his own nippers team.  He is also one of our dapper fellows who can suddenly appear in a natty suit (Sterlo owns the Air-Brain passenger airline company), while the rest of us are still salty scruffy and wearing thongs.

Because he’s not a boaster, only close friends know that Sterlo remains the Argentinian record holder in three events: 50 Metres; 400 Medley, and 1500 Metres.  He was on holiday in 2007, when a chance comment saw him have a go.

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STATS

Newbies:     Two

Swimmers:

6 a.m:          Eight

6.30 a.m:    Nine

7 a.m:          31

Temp:         19º