Today’s Blog – 19th December 2025
HO HO HO 🎅🎄 it’s BLOG DAY
Holiday cheer everywhere 🎉 swimmers heads bobbing in the water like festive buoys ❤️
The ocean was warm and frothy 🌊
visibility average-ish 👀
with little Christmas bauble tufts of seaweed drifting past – nature really leaned into the theme 🎄🟢
FFF was ROARING 🔥🏃♂️🏃♀️🌊
Lost count of how many legends were out there
Every generation represented, from Gen Alphas right through to beyond the Boomers. A true multigenerational masterpiece 🥹
Somewhere between lap three and the wall, e-bikes became the target of the morning rant 🚲😤 much to the horror of anyone younger than a millennial
Manly Speed Dealers made a triumphant return 💨🕶️ sleek, fast, snazzy
Taipan delivered a reflective end-of-year recap 📊✨2025, apparently, has been a year. The Pantone Colour of the Year: Cloud Dancer ☁️🤍 soft, calm, aspirational 🫶TIME Person of the Year: The Architects of AI 🤖🧠
The Baker proudly debuted the new One Meal Budgys, strutting like a man who is absolute peak energy 🩲😎
Norma’s Deli arrived like a festive fairy, dishing out sweet little fruit mince tarts and instant happiness 🧚♀️🥧
Rusty’s Pitch Report 🐠
Bay watch adventure!!! Tony and I gathered at Deadmans cliffs early 🌅Special K slept in 😴 or missed the memo so we pushed seaward into a wild sea 🌬️
Straight into an equally early Snoopy 🐶 and the Master Baker🧁 Not a good day for snorkelling or fish spotting ❌ Crumbly bite-size waves off Winkis
Timing to avoid a very, very large Drinks Express crew 🏊♂️🏊♀️🏊 Point 👉 a little wave forming around the corner, stairs, back straight. Wide was so much better, chop up the back straight 💥
Capless 🧢 arrived with us, having acquired a Saigon beer cap – the last person I thought would be swimming in a baseball cap. He looked almost respectable for once 😌
Coffee ☕ a home-made raspberry chocolate snap 🍓 A week of glorious summer weather upon us 🌞✨Did you clock the love? 💙
Merry everything 🎄✨ have a fantastic holiday break 😘
Love from cobloggers,
Baby Spice 💕 & Rusty the Fish 🐠