Swimming with the Bold & Beautiful is all about Fun, although it can get competitive amongst some ! who’s first to the point, who has a better kick or stroke ! but at the end of the day it’s just about having a great start to the day
2014 Summer Badge Ceremony – Sunday 22nd March
You’ve done the hard yards and got your Summer Badge(s), now come and collect your badges with all the pomp and ceremony the B&B can muster. Bring along $10 for each badge you have earned (correct money appreciated). The venue is the Royal Far West Children’s Home (opposite the beach) on Sunday 22nd March, straight after the regular swim! Everyone is welcome, family, friends and swimmers alike.
A $5 donation will be payable to the RFW at the gate for hosting this event, Plus RFW will provide a FREE breakfast (bacon and egg sandwich and a coffee/tea). Bookings are essential to ensure there is enough food. Book here for Badge Breakfast
All 2014 summer badge qualifiers will be presented with their well earned badge(s), so whether you are getting one personally or you want to enjoy the celebrations of your fellow swimmers, a great morning is guaranteed so come along, soak up the atmosphere and get inspired for the upcoming winter badges.
Today being Friday the 13th is a “F” day, starting with the Flying Dutchman
Friends, Eva & the lovely crazy lady called Lainey
(Click on any images to make them larger)
The Fabulous Four rubbers brothers in for a group shot !!
Friends poking Fun @ the (so called) “A” team
“F” is Forever !!! Father and Son, with the son getting married tomorrow…. Good luck !
Frolicking back swimming again Michele Sparkles
Bloggers Needed!
Like to try your hand at amateur journalism ? Please join the blogging team as we have vacancies on every other Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Help keep the B&B journal alive by helping periodically. All training will be provided and it doesn’t have to take up much time. We will even lend you an underwater camera to get those fantastic shots. Come and join and help us. Please contact JK direct or on 0419 277 410419 277 417
0419 277 417 or at jmk@balancemanagement.net.au
Ava & her Father Rainer
Hope everybody had a great time @ Tuesday night dinner @ Bluewater with some Fantastic wines from FESQ & Company & great food … Thanks Sacha
Ryan the local rep gave a talk about the Reds, Whites & sparkling wines on tasting from South Australian winery Tomich Winery ……. They were Fantastic ! so get your orders in.
Friends just chatting about nothing really, just enjoying each others company
LOST A WATCH? If you want to claim an underwater watch found on 1 March, please email pennyfarrant@bigpond.com with details of watch (make and colour) and where you lost it.
Hope her Father Tim & Sarah
Help Support Shelly the Turtle
A Baking Day will be held on Saturday 14th March to raise funds for Shelly the Turtle’s tracking tag so we can watch where she goes once released, and contribute to research into Green Turtle migration. Any extra funds will go towards turtle rehabilitation programs at SEA LIFE Sanctuary. Please contribute if you can. Sharnie will be hanging out by the benches on the day please bring baked goods there. Any non-bakers can contribute as consumers on the day!
The Next B&B Swim School 
It’s that time again! Join Pacific Jules coaches Warren and Sarah Anne for an hour in the ocean and learn to swim with less fight and more flow! This one hour session in the water will help you understand the way your body relates to the water, how to slice through with minimal effort and naturally build up speed and endurance.
When : Saturday 14 March 9:45-10:45am
Cost : $25
Location : Shelly Beach
Open to everyone and all abilities welcome. What to bring: swim suit, cap, goggles, wetsuit compulsory, water and money for a hot cuppa afterwards! Please email info@pacificjules.com.au for more information or to reserve your place.
Staying safe
Remember that there are no badges for scaring yourself silly! While it is great to extend your boundaries, it is important to know your limits. Also, if you have a bit more experience, keep an eye out for new swimmers who might need company. Do read these excellent tips on staying safe in the surf. To read, or even download, click here.
STATS
Swimmers 180
apparently 71 were 6.30am Drinky express swimmers… amazing
Newbies 6
Water Temp 23.3 degrees
Have a great day ! Mine started out great !!!
Love you all ! !
Shelly Xo
Shelly, filling in Friday for Bernhard the blogger who has had an injury ! He damaged Achilles tendon when he fell off a tree in his backyard competing with his son Marco !
get well soon !
604.5km Shelly Beach
32 comments
Elizabeth
13/03/2015 at 12:55 pm
Bruce Cuttance is an inspiration 98km swim in last month and close to that in preceding months. Well done! Great blog Shelly Beach and lovely fotos for today. Just a beautiful swim again
DWSSBFTR - Still Slow but faster than Rainer
13/03/2015 at 1:06 pm
OMG – that video is the funniest ever. All so true!
Well done Shelly. Best blog ever.
Bernhard
13/03/2015 at 1:07 pm
Thanks Shelley for filling in for me. I have surgery later this afternoon (repair of ruptured tendon), hopefully Friday 13th is not a bad omen.
During my forced absence from swim over the next 2 months, I will have at least enough time to work out some nice blog themes for later. Therefore beware, it won’t be tomorrow, but I will be back and prove my journalistic skills.
Lips aka #TheArm
13/03/2015 at 1:10 pm
Love the JK footage! I remember that meeting. It was tense.
Nice photo of Hope shamelessly photo bombing Little Sarah. She’s growing up so fast.
LSA aka HKTQ
13/03/2015 at 1:52 pm
And Little Ava outperforming her Dad…:-)
Can’t believe how excited she was to tell me about how he couldn’t keep up with her on her very first B&B swim! Has she been taking French kicking lessons in Shaun’s secret anon group of young ladies?
Elizabeth X
13/03/2015 at 1:53 pm
I agree, absolutely hilarious video and so well done. Brilliant blog Shelly and get well soon Rainer ! Might not have had the stunning sunrise but this ams swim was superb!
Shelly
13/03/2015 at 1:54 pm
Thx, fun to make also !
Pity it doesn’t come up on the email properly !
so if you missed it ! here it is …..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDASJ8IH_c
LSA aka HKTQ
13/03/2015 at 2:23 pm
Absolutely hilarious! Came up perfectly by email. I just had to watch it twice!
Spot on! Can’t wait to see Jules at the badge ceremony. We’re even changing our flight to enjoy all the extra-special celebrations on that day:-)
Shelley K
13/03/2015 at 2:28 pm
Hope you make a speedy and complete recovery Bernhard
Rusty
13/03/2015 at 2:42 pm
That video is very entertaining and funny. Well done.
Elizabeth
13/03/2015 at 3:25 pm
Bruce and Reg will hit 1000km soon but as they swim early how will it be marked?!
Sheena
13/03/2015 at 3:34 pm
Shelly you should be a script writer, that video is hilarious!
Jane
13/03/2015 at 3:54 pm
Lips – are you trying to sabotage me or something? I was very nearly sick laffing at JK’s Downfall. I guess I AM getting a bit close to you on the PC. And none of those sly barbs at the Irish please – there’s no way we’d even allow Bill McCaffeine into the country, let alone pretend to be one of us. And poor JK – I noticed him sobbing quietly soon after the blog came out.
Jane
13/03/2015 at 3:56 pm
Oops – did Shelly make the video, not Lips after all? Well, that’s even more hilarious then.
Shelly
13/03/2015 at 4:10 pm
Thx ! it was fun.
Shelly
13/03/2015 at 4:18 pm
Mmmm….You are going to get a good soaking tomozzzz !
Tayls
13/03/2015 at 4:21 pm
brilliant…..
Jane
13/03/2015 at 4:24 pm
The horror, the horror………..
Elizabeth
13/03/2015 at 4:45 pm
I agree!
Anna McBold
13/03/2015 at 4:45 pm
Best of luck with the surgery Bernhard. Make sure you come down for the banter during rehab.
ros ex
13/03/2015 at 5:20 pm
So funny Shelly! Were you around for the original? In the bunker and all?
Fuhrer
13/03/2015 at 5:28 pm
Ze Management Committee Meetings are zuppposed to be confidential. Zere iz a firing squad waiting for ze person who leaked zis informazion
Management
13/03/2015 at 5:30 pm
Sorry, Jules isn’t coming. Just Shelly’s imagination.
Simon
13/03/2015 at 6:03 pm
Shelly Ich liebe das YouTube-Video.
Ich liebe auch das Foto von Ava und ihr Vater Rainer.
Bruce sagte Julie über die Zeremonie
Shelly
13/03/2015 at 6:25 pm
Dankeschön.
Lainey aka E-laine
13/03/2015 at 6:41 pm
Love the video. If you haven’t clicked on it yet, you must, it’s very funny. Well done Shelly. What a legend. Bruce and Reg are doing a double tomorrow and a single on Sunday which will take them to 1000 kms. Not sure if they will do the early swim or 7am but we will need an arch of people.
Thank you so much to those of you, including some I don’t even know who have donated to Ruth’s elecric wheelchair fund. (see last Wednesday’s blog)
LSA aka HKTQ
13/03/2015 at 6:57 pm
You never know…. she managed to pop over when we were last here:) Either way, she’ll be in all our imaginations:)
LSA aka HKTQ
13/03/2015 at 7:01 pm
Yes, please come down soon, Bernhard. I’m also in the sick bay….we could have a special table for those of us in rehab!
Clare M
13/03/2015 at 9:19 pm
Only just reading the blog- loving the video, thanks for the evening laugh:)
Speedy recovery Bernhard!
Bill McCaffeine
13/03/2015 at 10:40 pm
Shelly
The video is on its way around the planet, very good…
Bernhard
Real men drink coffee at the benches …… ruptured tendon is a lame (ahem) excuse. See you there.
Pacific Jules
17/03/2015 at 2:15 pm
Finally caught up on the blog… better late than never 😉
The video is superb Shelly, ROFL – hilarious !!! 🙂 xx
Shelly
17/03/2015 at 3:51 pm
Thx.
Well done on your swim…. mighty effort !
Pity you aren’t coming to collect those 4 badges !