Stranger than fiction

There are some women’s shoes outside the surf club. No explanation. Maybe McNaughty knows something.

The Bold and Beautiful swim is still officially closed, as we are still limited to a smaller number of folk that would normally swim at 7. Some might see this as a bonus, (such as those of us lucky ones who love a weekend lie-in in a nice warm bed) because we can still log our swims. See the bottom of the blog for more information.

Speaking of which…….

Here are some early swimmers enjoying a socially distanced coffee and chat

David C, aka Capless Dave the Younger on photobomber duty.  A broken arm does not keep Helen from her Vitamin Sea

Upper Management JK said the swim was lovely

Today is the first outing of my new underwater camera. It’s a powerful little beast and I hope to be able to take advantage of its many functions. Early days yet.

A very low tide

Wows having fun, with our photobomber / honorary Wow

Lovely happy Alex who was leaving the water

learning to float?

The middle of the bay was teeming with jimbles (at least 3 but that’s 3 too many) so I stayed near the rocks. I had wanted to go to the Bower and beyond to look for the Port Jackson sharks and hopefully the seals but I am too much of a stinger wuss.

Here are some of the walkway reef inhabitants. The following photos are unedited apart from resizing in order to facilitate uploading to the blog today.

For those interested, I used the fish mode underwater HDR setting. According to the TG-6 instruction manual (page 34)  this setting is suitable for contrasting underwater scenes. This mode captures multiple images and merges them into one, properly exposed image. This mode may not function well for shooting a fastmoving subject (true but the colours are impressive). The underwater settings dont allow for continuous shooting which I prefer, but I will find a way.

Sergeant Baker

Lovely blue groper

I dont know but it’s cute

I think this is a blue morwong

Mullet who can definitely see where they are going

Not a fish, but I wanted to see how the colours and clarity were. Not bad.

Some lovely seabird residents. Terns or cormorants is my guess

Swimming in the rain

Announcing the 3000km badge

Are you amazed by our wonderful swimmers that day in day out log nice long swims. Well now, not only can you claim a 500km 1000km and 2000km badge but a 3000km badge will be available.  Those eligible swimmers who have logged approved Bold and Beautiful swims will be able to claim the 3000km badge, the first of which will be awarded at the Winter Badge Ceremony.

Dry July

Regular swimmer Emma Grose is one of many Bold and Beautiful swimmers currently raising funds for people affected by Cancer by going dry and July.  If you can contribute please visit the link below

http://www.dryjuly.com/users/emma-grose

Thanks ladies.

Swim Anywhere, Any time to qualify for your 2020 Once Off – Unique – Covid Winter ChallengeDue to Covid-19 and the current government guidelines limiting the number of people allowed to be in a group, Bold & Beautiful is still currently suspended.

But we recognise many of our swimmers are still swimming at various times and locations, and it is more important than ever to remain fit, healthy and connected.

As such, B&B is offering this unique, one off, Covid 2020 Winter Challenge Badge, kindly designed by our amazingly creative swimmer, Linda from Manly Mac Art.

To qualify for your Covid Winter Challenge Badge you need to swim 20 times across 7 different weeks of winter, between 1st June – 31st August.
If you are swimming at Manly, any time of the day, please continue to log your swim as Manly – Shelly Swim, this swim will not only count towards your Covid Winter Challenge Badge, it will also continue to count towards the Pacific Challenge.

If you are swimming in any other location, anywhere in the world, please tick your swim as ‘Covid Swim’, this will give you a special 19m on the Pacific Challenge and will count towards your Covid Winter Challenge.
Log your 20 (or more) swims without a wetsuit and you will be eligible for the special 2020 ICC (Ice Cold Corona) badge.

YOU MUST LOG YOUR SWIMS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE YOUR COVID BADGE(S)

NEW B&B MENS AND LADIES BATHERS ONLINE & IN BUDGY SMUGGLER STORE
Complement your B&B merchandise range with these hot of the press, brand new B&B Budgy Smuggler Bathers designed by one of our own swimmers, Georgina Hart.
They are totally gorgeous and we’re confident you will LOVE them!!!

NEW B&B BATHERS – ORDER HERE

What am I listening to? Being able to listen to music through the air instead of headphones is one of the many advantages of working from home. Others include more comfortable corporate attire (tracky daks, ugg boots and a nice warm blanky), saving money on products to make one look nice for people one basically doesn’t give a rats about and a continually available fridge which makes the comfy clothing even more appealing.

I don’t care if you’re not a Dylan fan’, this is gold

Have a great day, wash your hands, be kind to yourself and others.