Summertime and the living is easy

With many swimmers enjoying the year-end break, the mood is definitely relaxed, despite some challenging swimming conditions. There appears to be a sandbank out from the point, delivering interesting wave and rip patterns.

Note the sole swimmer entering the water

I saw the 6:30 swimmers heading out from the beach. They were thoroughly pummeled, but got through. The overriding vibe from the 7am crew was that today is definitely a Shelley kind of day.

Happy Can Too swimmers

Acting Management – the word is Shelley. The word is not even Half Way

WoWs and their adoring fans

The board says 19 but I  beg to differ. I only recently observed that my camera (TG-5) displays the temperature. The water temps between Shelley and the Bower pool were between 16.0 and 17.3.

A newbie signing on

A rare photo of Peter, one of our excellent photographers. I missed the lady’s name but she has been on the blog every day this week.

Shelley and Elizabeth (yesterday’s blogger)

So we all headed to Shelley

The water was murky and cold, but patience is its own reward. These were all spotted very close to Shelley, in the shallows and even there the visibility was not great.

I’ve been playing with the macro microscope setting. The movement of the water is challenging.

This is part of the the root system of a piece of seaweed. My macro journey is definitely a work in progress.

Female groper

And her fella

Goatfish, let’s call him Roger

I don’t have a photo of Gemma but today is her 4th anniversary of swimming with the B&B. Congrats Gemma! May there be many more years of swimming

Operation Crayweed Grass planting in Cabbage Tree Bay

If you are interested in supporting/assisting this initiative by way of signing up to be a CV (Citizen Volunteer) please read on.

The SIMS (Sydney Institute of Marine Science) Project Team expect to start the preparation work in late January and in February.

Assistance could take the form of on-land prepping as well as snorkeling assistance helping the netting get secured etc. SIMS/U.NSW do however have strict compliance paperwork to be prepared/signed off on before commencing such assistance.

If you are interested in becoming a CV to help the marine regeneration initiative could you please send your full name, mobile number and email to Dorset Sutton (Project Sponsor) at suttondorset@gmail.com.

Dorset will forward you by email the paperwork required to be completed. At this stage actual prep/dive dates are not know, but we are interested in seeing how many potential CV’s we’ll have.

Forms will also be available at B&B Board each morning at our swim.  See Dorset at the swim.

The Bonzo Dog Band really were ahead of their time and back in the 60s the foretold the advent of the fitness crazes to follow. Here is their ode to muscle, Mr Apollo

Have a great weekend, stay safe in the surf