Friday 28 July 2017 Global

It occurs to me what a global life we lead. I encounter at the swim lots of people who are from different parts of the world or who travel to different parts of the world. I have also recently very much enjoyed reading about Brendan Maher’s swim of the English Channel, Julie Isbill’s swim of the Catalina Channel and then the 20 bridges swim of New York  (so much cleaner at Manly Julie), Michael Teys  swim of the Catalina Channel – with a sore shoulder etc.

The we have visitor swimmers coming to BB.

Unusually I had control of the remote control at home for several hours over last weekend and blew my chance on watching the FINA swim championships (looking for tips but they moved too fast for me to get any) and the Crime channel. Ok I was left home alone. It occurred to me that for almost all of the murder victims there was a studio portrait head shot. I don’t have one of myself and I think the BB swimmers do not need one – if any of us gets murdered and feature on the crime channel, we have the lovely BB blog photos!

Ever wondered how the women swimmers are transformed in the change rooms?

 

Preparing for the swim

A winter rashie

 

 

Sue and SSean (deliberate double ss. in-joke)

How excited was I to see Alex in person with a Louise Jane jacket. I have been reading about his support work for the Brendan Maher swim (as I have read on FB I am ok to engage in the familiarity of first names. I think) of the English Channel. On the Louise Jane boat. Without support crew none of these amazing feats would be possible. I think it is a great thing to do and am inspired by these people. Being a support crew is on my bucket list rather than swimming any channel

A team swimmers near the A team tree

I wonder if you can guess why I have photographed these two handsome swimmers?  Check the end of the blog for the momentous announcement

Matt from Manly lives in New York and is visiting for a swim. Ian provides a cap together with our disclaimer

The famous Alan with friends

 

Matt and David showing it is almost time to go in

 

Such lovely swimmers – the women and the outfits. Why don’t we have colourful swimming booties. The black ones look like business sox

John Dorset and Henrietta

Time to go in

1000 km

 

Robert Hayter!!!

 

And who would you like to celebrate such a momentous occasion with? BB Swimmers in an arch of course.

 

 

At the point

 

Encounters with early swimmers.

This is an important chapter in my blogs. I tried to swim with this group once but was still trying to enter the water by the time they had completed their swim. Proper swimmers. It is always good to see them return as you get in the water because they are smiling and say how much they have enjoyed the swim.

This is for Shelly K. A post modern shot of a blogger photographing an early swimmer who is photographing (pretending to) the blogger. High arty-farty aspirations. I am concerned as to how you got stuck in a car yesterday Shelly and hope it was not in the casino carpark! Nick Martin poses for context

Breaking news: Sarah is pregnant. You heard it here first. Baby is due in the normal course of things

I did not make it to Shelly  but here are some swimmers who did

This swimmer thought I had seen a cuttle fish but I had just seen a load of excellent swimmers. They’re behind you!

 

 

I got Michael on his double

The lovely Sue was completing a double when she swam past me and Ian who was telling me some interesting things about swimming locations in Sydney and famous ocean swimmers. It is a pity in my opinion that so many Olympic pools are being demolished to make way for leisure centres however appealing leisure centres may be.

 

 

 

 

Statistics

290 swimmers

1 newbie

18.1 degrees

 

 

What I have been reading

This week I have been reading another Peter Corris book with Cliff hardy called January Zone. It is silly and progressing a bit with the Gene book but as it is non fiction it is hard to zip through

At the end of my swim, the lovely sun hit Manly – my destination

 

Management notices

Enjoy this image of vegetarian shark the basking shark. it swims around with  its mouth open to get enough food. Must get sore jaws. It is huge.

 

B&B MONTHLY DINNER – GUEST SPEAKER

The next B&B monthly dinner for the year will be held on Tuesday 8th August at 6.30 pm at Bluewater Restaurant. The guest speaker on the night will be travel agent Brett Goulston, whose talk is entitled “20 places you should visit even though you may never have heard about them and probably can’t pronounce them”

Brett is co-owner of Blue Dot Travel (with two of our B&B swimmers, Brod Brennan & Joanne Coughlan). All three are travel tragics who have travelled to most of the corners of the globe and are passionate travellers, swimmers and walkers.

Blue Dot Travel is a boutique travel business which has generously signed on as a B&B sponsor. The business focuses on mature/young at heart travellers who are looking for unique experiences (think Madagascar, Kamchatka, Nagaland, Ethiopia, Caucuses, Iceland, etc). To celebrate the occasion they will be giving away 5 lucky door prizes on the night as well as offering Bold & Beautiful members a $250 discount off any trip they book in the next 60 days.

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 HERE.

 

B&B Badge info:
The winter swimming season runs from 1 June to 31 August, and to qualify for your winter badge, you must:

• swim at least 20 times during this period
• swim in at least 7 different weeks
• log your swims

To qualify for the WWW badge (winter without wetsuit) you must complete all of the above without wearing a wetsuit or any other form of bodily thermal enhancement (don’t forget to check the “without wetsuit” button on the log in screen). Why not give it a try?

New B&B merchandise available via the link:  http://www.boldandbeautifulmanly.com.au/clothing.html

 

If you need silicon caps or discount cards as a swimmer, see Ian or John at the desk before your swim!