Mon 20th: Cool Hand Luke

 

 

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 prison drama starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance.  Newman stars as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system.

Cited as an anti-establishment film and shot during the time of the Vietnam War, with Newman’s character enduring “physical punishment, psychological cruelty, hopelessness and equal parts of sadism and masochism.”  His influence on his prison mates and the torture that he endures is compared to that of Jesus, and Christian symbolism is used throughout the film.  It has a rare 100% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.  The quotation used by the prison warden in the film, which begins with “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate,” was listed at No. 11 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 most memorable movie lines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.05 Monday wake-up call for Booty Camp crew

 

 

 

 

Below: Mark and daughter Alana are the first to test waters this morning, circa 6.05 a.m. (Meanwhile we the Viber crowd are strung up at the pegs – about bluebottles …)

Confession:  This blogger does not swim today

 

Below: Andrew swims to North Steyne at 6.15.  Didn’t see a bluebottle.  “Lots of stingtays and whiting,” he reports.

More on blubber:  “I’ve surfed these beaches all my life – the jimbles have only been here for five years.”

 

 

Meanwhile, out on Lord Howe Island, a bunch of swimmers are enjoying their first full day on swim hols “Ocean Swims with ironman Trevor Hendy”.  (Brian was buying goggles at the new supermall on Saturday for Lord Howe)

 

 

Fifi aqua shot: Richard Agius (pronounced ‘Ages’) is a regular Queenscliffer, and volunteer lifesaver.  Often runs to pipe of a morning for warm-up.  At one with this ocean

 

 

Mark’s looking surprisingly young and handsome this morning, despite spending half the night in hospital after being stuck up ‘n’ struck down by a banana-sized bluebottle yesterday arvo.  Alana and Suzie tending.  (Suzie raced 2.5 kms in the ‘Dawny to Cockatoo Island’ harbour race on weekend …)

 

Fifi aqua: weekend jelly

 

 

 

 

Melissa and Andy take kids to ramp; turn back for pedestrian crossing and harbour; and, a few mins later, return to ocean ramp.  “One boy got a sting on wrist,” he says, after swim.

 

Ian (pictured), Simon, Steve and Mark raced the Snowy Mountains ITU Cross Triathlon World Champs on weekend.  ‘Cross’ meaning across country on a mountain bike, and bush trails for running leg.

 

Swim leg was in Lake Crackenjack, and it was there only that they all experienced oxygen starvation from high altitude.  (Didn’t happen when cycling or running.)  “I was reduced to breaststroke in first 200 metres, trying to get my breath back,” says Simon.

 

 

 

Triathlete Rochelle is today’s bluebottle blogstar – being tended by triathlete Paul and middleman Shaun

 

 

 

Dapper Dude of the day is John – transforming into corporate kit.  Whatever happens from now on this day, he’s already been in the ocean at sunrise   🙂

 

 

 

B&B Christmas Party – don’t miss out – BOOK EARLY

 

The B & B Christmas Party this year will be held on Tuesday 13^th December at 6.30 pm in the Moonshine Bar (2^nd Floor) at the Steyne Hotel. All swimmers and partners/friends are welcome (no under 18s unfortunately). The theme again this year is simply “Christmas”. So come dressed in your finest Christmas paraphernalia. Lots of fun and dancing are guaranteed, with music by a fantastic rock band “Gluteus Maximus”. The cost is $10 per head, with all proceeds going to the running costs of the B&B. Book HERE now! Don’t miss out on this fun event, numbers are limited.

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