It was a glorious morning this morning on Manly Beach with the sun out, the tide up and the surfers out having a great time.
The yogis were doing their thing while everyone else contemplated the best entry point given the waves and surfers close to our usual swimming route.
Reports from the early swimmers were that it was fine, a bit choppy and not too much to see but quite good. Michelle and Co couldn’t wait to get out there and into the waves.
For the last couple of days we have been joined at our swim by the 2014 New Zealander of the Year Dr Lance O’Sullivan who is holidaying in the area. A quick bit of research via Wikipedia (so it must be true) reports “O’Sullivan was declared New Zealander of the Year 2014 for his work on rural health projects, and Cameron Bennett, chief judge of the awards, said “Lance O’Sullivan’s passion, drive and unwavering commitment to eradicating poverty related illnesses are exactly the kind of qualities we look for.” O’Sullivan was named supreme Maori of the Year in 2013, as well as winning in the Health category, and has been awarded a Sir Peter Blake Trust leadership award, and a public health champion award. In 2014, he was named the second most trusted New Zealander by Readers Digest. In 2015 he was named Communicator of the Year.
Nice to have you with us Lance, sorry we didn’t catch up for a photo.
It was Maria’s birthday today. After the swim at Bluewater her family who are visiting from America came and joined Maria for breakfast including her gorgeous new granddaughter Addison.
Melissa and Brian have both been sick so nice to have them both back swimming with us during the the week.
While a group left from the beach, a few ventured around to half way, although it was still quite choppy around there.
Jim enjoyed a laugh at Shelly Beach.
While Rainer, David and Louise are always up for a photo.
Maria got to do the let’s go before everyone headed back through the chop to Manly
I guess we can’t always have it glass like and crystal clear conditions.
Have a great day everyone.
D from the Z’s
Stats
Temperature: 17.8 degrees
Newbies: None
Swimmers: 130
8 comments
Simon
September 15, 2016 at 11:50 am
Deanna, thanks again for another story of the day .
Lesbubs
September 15, 2016 at 1:23 pm
Hey i thought you were going to take some bad photos of me D?!
Deanna Waters
September 15, 2016 at 1:25 pm
Lips was too busy steeling the limelight at Shelly so I missed you – there’s always next time
Elizabeth Stewart
September 15, 2016 at 1:53 pm
Love your work! someone at work said that there were 2x 3m sharks at Shelly. Was that Shelly at Manly or another Shelly?
Deanna Waters
September 15, 2016 at 2:01 pm
Would be surprised if it was “our” Shelly today – I barely sore anything out there today
Lesbubs
September 15, 2016 at 3:05 pm
yeh i see what you mean..that is a bad photo of Lips!
Lips
September 15, 2016 at 4:30 pm
Thanks for noticing Bubbles. I was going for awkward with a dash of double chin.
Nice work Deanna! 🙂
JK
September 15, 2016 at 7:32 pm
Maria, you little devil, didn’t know it was your birthday or you would have got a song. Must have been fate for me to ask you to do the lets go. HB