BLUEWATER RESTAURANT REPORT
This was the sky at 6.30 pm last night, as the monthly Bluewater evening was commencing …
Guest speaker was Di Westaway – head of Wild Women on Top. Her talk was titled “NATURAL EXHILARATION: Design a life you love”. Di believes that high adventure is Fun!
Di began by acknowledging that the Pink Caps are already delving deeply into an active, satisfying life via the adventure of dawn swims in the wild.
Here are Di’s nine elements of daily “Lifestyle Medicine”. To keep you feeling sparkly 🙂
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1. LOVE Feel it … give it … share it
2. MOVEMENT An hour of exercise. Including seven minutes of puffing
3. NOURISHMENT Eat real food. Don’t eat junk. (Except cake on Friday Tridays)
4. SLEEP You need seven to eight hours. For healing and repair
5. NATURE Get out into the wilds. The mountains. The oceans.
6. MEDITATION It can be simple. You can even mediate while swimming.
7. GRATITUDE Really feel it. Ritualise it each day. Conscious gratefulness
8. HAPPINESS Laughing. Joy. Mirth. “Just look at Elaine sitting over there”
9. DISCONNECT Spend at least one hour a day Offline and Off your phone, TV, headphones etc
Di emphasised that we really really need to get off the junk food – it’s worse than you think. Anything packaged, with lots of numbers on its labelling. Bad stuff.
She gave a great talk – thanks Di Westaway 🙂
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NEWS UPDATES
Merrilee is back from World Life Saving Champs in Europe. She won three Gold Medals in her age bracket! (High heels can double as starting blocks)
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Coolangatta Gold is this weekend. Spaniard, Nathan and Kendrick in the Open Comp. Others in the Short Course and Teams events. A total of about 20 competitors from Manly Surf Life Saving Club going up. good luck!
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Starless and bible black
I’m going scuba diving under Manly Wharf at midnight tomorrow. It’s quite deep where ferry docks. Who wants some free false teeth or wet phones?
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CONDITIONS TODAY
Air 10º (On the hilly parts) 14º (Lower Manly town)
Cloud nil
Waves nil
Surface Flat
Water 17.5º (Water chill factor: high)
Vis 78%
Jimbles Yes (Varying reports)
Sunshine Most welcome and warming
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Bee and Steve – part of the 6.08 Forward Party …
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NEWBIE
Mark originates from Capetown and has been here 12 years. He does NOT live in St Ives. Has swum Bolds about seven times, and is training for a Noosa triathlon. Today he meets Matt – and learns about the Warringah Club. I hope he likes cake
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Whiteboard Duties
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Greg left in a real hurry at 6.30 …
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How can Dorset have all his badges on what looks to be a brand-new jacket? (Because he buys his badges in multiples)
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Ringah Tri Clubbers on the exit …
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7 a.m. ramp out …
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Seven a.m. mob decides to head north – dodging those jimbles over on the Cabbage route
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What’s the waterproof time, Alan?
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Not. happy. Jan
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Advertising talent scout is taking names of swimmin’ women for a new project …
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Sevens on return route …
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Annie unleashes the big top …
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It’s nearly morning tea time. Today Robyn and Chris launch a new routine: Inermittent walking-jogging to Queenscliff, carrying swim kit. Swim back from Queensie. However; their first stop and hava-chat was only seven metres off ramp
Have a nice day all 🙂
15 comments
Jenny ((:
12/10/2016 at 11:56 am
Great Blog Roger, I love that you captured the 9 Elements of Joy 🙆
Lainey
12/10/2016 at 12:07 pm
Thank you for keeping me up to date with everything while I’m away Rog. Di’s talk sounds amazing. What an inspiring woman. Did she mention our ‘Swim in Your Undies’ for charity? Congratulations Merrilee. So many amazing people in our group I admire so much.
Elizabeth
12/10/2016 at 12:08 pm
Excrllent blog. It is just like I was there this morning. When are the jimbles going to leave?
Rusty
12/10/2016 at 1:31 pm
Another entertaining blog Roger. Funny pictures. A great morning.
Shelley K
12/10/2016 at 1:37 pm
It is Spring, moonless night …And you alone can hear the invisible starfall, the darkest-before- dawn minutely dewgrazed stir of the black, dab-filled sea where the Arethusa, the Curlew and the Skylark, Zanzibar, Rhiannon, the Rover, the Cormorant, and the Star of Wales tilt and ride…dreaming of the bucking ranches of the night and the jolly-rogered sea.
Ahem… apologies to Mr Thomas
Joy indeed, thanks Roger
roger
12/10/2016 at 2:09 pm
“The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”
― Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
JeffwithaJ
12/10/2016 at 2:23 pm
Hey Roger! Another colourful, inclusive, fun blog. Thank you. I used to have a CD of Richard Burton reading Under Milkwood, which was sooo good.
Simon
12/10/2016 at 2:37 pm
Nice one again Roger!
Can’t wait to see the underwater pictures from your midnight dive.
Lips
12/10/2016 at 3:46 pm
Great all-round update Roger. Perfect conditions this morning. Derek and i grabbed a bunch of girls and went up to Queensie. They giggled the whole way..
Is that Lesbubbles at the dinner last night? At the A-Team table?
Lesbubs
12/10/2016 at 3:58 pm
Yes but only until the younger girls turned up then I was pushed out
Bill McCaffeine
12/10/2016 at 4:14 pm
It was a moonlit night in old Mexico.
I walked alone between some old adobe haciendas.
Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl.
You better come home, Speedy Gonzales
Claire
12/10/2016 at 6:17 pm
Drinkie we need you back so you can wait for us all to gather at the point and at Shelly!! I keep getting left behind on the 6.30 group!
Inge
12/10/2016 at 8:22 pm
Gawd Roger, swimming under Manly Wharf at midnight! Yes see if you can find us a pair of false teeth. Many years ago I walked under the wharf to find that people were sleeping on old mattresses on the sand. Now there are metal bars and this area appears inaccessible except to penguins. Maybe you will come across a penguin?
Spaniard
13/10/2016 at 1:53 pm
Thanks Roger for the mention! 🙂
Paul
14/10/2016 at 2:40 pm
….and a King Crimson reference throw in for good measure. Classy blog, Roger.