Friday 4 August 2017 Rewards

The date has been set for the badge ceremony – 19 Sept so all you need to do is get the swims in

If you are not a badge collector then the swim is its own reward.

The other people who came along today to enjoy the swim, potential badge[s], Kathy’s 60th birthday and Vince’s milestone swim:

Mark – early swimmer – Polly the superstar dog and friends

Fiona and Michael. Swimming not blogging

Some rewards already in the bag

Cameron

So many rewards

The water was warm today. The air was not. But the sun was out and it is winter after all.

Kathy is 60 today. What a lovely way to start any birthday

Karen and her lovely daughter

David is checking out the sea. A reward just to look at the horizon

Bob is on his next 1000km. Here posing with Anne. Swimmer of the day

Congratulations Vince!!!

Encounters with early swimmers – always smiling!!

Sam has moved to the early side

A group of lawyers

And the most fab swimmers today

An attempt at photographing the waves.

Fiona

John Kelly at the point – the others were waiting not at the point

What I have been reading

The Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. A story about a hill billy made good who looks at why working class Americans are so cross (that they elected Donald Trump). Excellent so far.

Also, did you know that one of our swimmers, writer, Helen Thurloe has written a poem that is entitled something like Bold and Beautiful 7 am. I wonder what it is about.  Maybe we will get to read it when a certain poetry award ceremony is over…

Scallops

At dinner one night I wondered how scallops swim. Google said that they can swim with brief bursts of speed to escape predators, either forward or back. The most interesting part was that the predators of scallops are starfish!

A seashell escapes from a starfish
byu/username_indecision ingifs

And now the dinner ad

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

Avner’s Foundation are holding their annual “Put Your Foot Down” 5km walk for Pancreatic Cancer this Sunday 6th of August in Manly. All profits raised will be invested in research to help change the 5-year survival rate from its current 8%.

To register/donate/more info: https://putyourfootdownsydney2017.gofundraise.com.au

Wear purple, the colour of the disease with prizes on offer for most creatively dressed in purple.

On Saturday a bake sale will take place at the B&B set-up – all support for it is appreciated.

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