Habits and Routines

A winter swim. Clear water. Temperature falling. The swimmers arrived today in large numbers (swimming individually at a time of their choosing) to swim under a clear winter sky. Taking off warm clothes and revealing swimmers underneath or wrangling into the wetsuit. Swimmers have their locations and swim times. They have their preferred goggles. Some are boringly predictable – yes, me: on arrival, even though I am going to swim anyway, I check the temperature; I ask early swimmers what the conditions were like, whether there were jimbles. I take ages to get in rather than being like Nike and just getting on with it. Out in the water, you think every swimmer is just swimming but all you have to do is some aquarobics actions out in the bay to find them stopping and asking “are you ok?” (this from personal experience.

Here is Robin with the sun behind. The early swimmers are entering almost in the dark as we approach the winter solstice. And only this morning I was involved in a conversation with some swimmers about Sunday’s 615 swim marking the winter solstice from Shelly Beach for which there is a private badge that can be bought. It was interesting to many swimmers who want to swim with a deliberate wardrobe malfunction. 

Here is the “Getting Ready” chapter of this blog where I focus on swimmers getting ready but as this is a family blog I wait until there are no wardrobe malfunctions to capture in the photo

Look at the lovely sunrise aura surrounding Linda and swim mates

More swimmers getting ready. A swim robe allows for easy and modest changing

AHHH What a warm glow seeing two pink caps. In these times where the group is not swimming we are all wearing different caps. In the olden days we would all wear a pink cap and it is lovely to see this 

Early swimmers dressed and ready to go after a superb swim

triathletes who have probably run and biked through the night to now come and have a swim

See the sun reflection behind these early swimmers; even without it they glow with the benefits of the swim in the sea they have completed. Partly in the dark. 

On the ramp

Kevin reports that the swim was excellent. It is true that the water was very much warmer from the point onwards while the shallower water was cold.

Have a good day!