Friday 5 August 2016 Auspicious, D-Day

It is a special day today – a swimming day, but ALSO Dorset’s 66th birthday and he has craftily arranged it so that he completes his 1000km. The older we get, the cleverer.

 

All these swimmers were keen to congratulate Dorset on his swim and wish him happy birthday. More wanted to do so but there was only room for this many

 

Here are some A team swimmers making a plan to match Dorset

 

WOW plus one man

 

Jim

 

 

 

Wendy and Penny

 

And into the swim

 

 

My encounters with the earlier swimmers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dorset setting off with Jim and John, as an early swimmer finishes her swim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At Shelly Beach – thanks to assistant photographers Elaine and Howard.

Dorset calls Let’s Go

 

 

 

Howard

 

The sun came out for Dorset’s 1000km swim completion

 

 

 

 

I was preparing an outfit for the City to Surf walk (I am out there for so long it is good to give people something to read or consider) and decided to focus on cleaning up the sea. So much plastic we could do without ! Look at this picture – not mine but still:

 

See how good it is for the sea that BB swimmers swim here because lots of people bring in whatever rubbish they find. Here is a photo of the small amount Peter collected just today:

 

Improving my stroke

The swimming tool I am looking at this week is the Tic Toc to help with good body rotation. You put it on your waste and then the ball bearing tic tocs if you have good body rotation. If you don’t have good body rotation, no tic toc!

What I am reading: this week I am rereading Catch 22. I watched the Rolling Thunder concert recently with songs from the Vietnam War era. So I thought I would read this book again. It is great. Especially on the ludicrous aspects of the army – just like a bureaucracy I know so well. I generally don’t re-read books but I have re-read Catcher  in the Rye and now this book.

Bottom of the blog

Stats

185 swimmers

2 newbies

18.6 degrees

Walk for Pancreatic Cancer – Sydney 2016

Our own Caroline Kelly is excited to announce the 8th annual Sydney walk on Sunday 7th August which saw a large contingent of the Bold & Beautiful take part. Due to recent storm damage to the pathway between Shelly Beach and Manly, the start/end point has been changed this year. It will now commence about 200 metres north of the North Steyne SLSC.  Come out and support this very good cause by registering and walking or doing some extra fundraising. To register Click here. Or you can Continue Reading more.

Special Event – Guest Speaker!

The next B&B monthly dinner will be on Tuesday 9^th August at 6.30 pm at Bluewater Restaurant. The guest speaker for the night will be John Sear, a keen local SCUBA diver who has been diving at Shelly Beach for over 25 years and made over a thousand dives there. In recent years his interest as an amateur photographer has driven him to start recording the fish species that can be found in the Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve. He shares his passion through his website www.ctbar.wordpress.com which aims to help educate divers, snorkelers and swimmers as they explore our local biodiversity hotspot. His talk is titled “What Lies Beneath”.

The cost of the dinner is only $25 a head and includes shared entrees, a selection of mains to choose (incl a vegetarian option), corkage (for byo wine only) and a little thank you for the staff. 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 NOW, 

Manly Surf Club Season Opening Party

A season Opening Party for the Manly Surf Club will be held upstairs at the Steyne Hotel on Saturday 6th August. The event will feature the band Triple Shot, with a live auction also lined up! Tickets are $50 or 2 for $80, includes food and 3 free drinks. Follow the link to purchase tickets: http://manly-lsc.myshopify.com/products/tickets-mlsc-season-opener

Streetwork are trying to raise money (and awareness) of StreetWork Manly and to do this Jim Stackpool is helping organise a gig at North Manly Bowlo Saturday night 13th August. They’re charging $35/head (best beforehand using the trybooking site –https://www.trybooking.com/206959) or will also take money at the door – the fees includes food, not drinks and music from the 2WS playlist – i.e. three chord songs – we don’t know any others!
Come prepared to dance.

Fundamentally StreetWork work with kids in Manly ‘under pressure’ or on the street. They mentor kids one-on-one until they are ‘out of danger’ of self-harm, crime, drugs, or worst of all suicide. These kids are ‘usually’ living at home, but not in safe environments. They struggle for funds and like most charities are held together but a dedicated few doing a lot in their spare time. We’ll have one of the guys from StreetWork (they have two counsellors now and trying to get another – they can’t meet demand) at the gig giving a really quick story about what they do. As many B&B’s that want a night out dancing to us playing 1970’s, 1980’s rock’n’roll (three chords only) with drinks at pub prices.

 

thanks to Jo for finding and keeping safe my ugly Christmas rashie