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Category Archives: Swimming
Nissan BRW Corporate Triathlon
Surfmuppet gets a podium finish! One of the first through the gates of the domain carpark at 5am and beats the best of them getting back out through the gates at 1125. Yee haw! Stick at this game long enough … Continue reading
North Bondi 1 and 2km 10th Feb
Here we go at North Bondi again. Coming down the hill into Bondi in the Silver Bullet just after 8am the ocean looks perfect with only a slight coating of ripple to denote a bit of a wave. Off into … Continue reading
Cole Classic 2km
What a muppet stunt to pull! Wave number 9, navy caps, scheduled to depart the platform at 1130 in tandem with wave 8, sky blue caps – all good, except surfmuppet is too busy yackering away to notice that there … Continue reading
Australia Day, Bodyscience Great Australian Swim, 2.2km
Farm Cove Not quiet the bull shark aquarium as Cookatoo Island but the eastern side of Farm Cove just off Lady Macquarie’s chair is not known as bull shark alley for nothing. Here we are at the end of the … Continue reading
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North Bondi Roughwater 1 and 2km Swims
Coming down the hill into Bondi 8am on a sleepy post festive season Sunday morning nothing much compares to the sight of the crescent of ocean lolling there half indifferent to the ways of humans, throwing a swell or two … Continue reading
Bold & Beautiful – First swim of the year
New Years Day Norfolk Island Pines, Cabbage Tree Bay and the Bower Break loom up into view as the silver bullet once again zips down the hill into Manly for a 7am deadline with the surf. Eyeballing the Bold & … Continue reading
New Years Eve – Clovelly
Sun rises in a ball of fire at 5:47 am. Sunshine Sarah and Radioman Paul take photos of it, already up on Facebook. The Taxman got a similar shot last Friday morning, also up on FB. Must be one of … Continue reading
Manly LSC Blue Dolphin 1 & 2km Swims
Sunday 16th December, 2012 Beautiful morning for a swim. When surfmuppet first came to Australia twenty three and a half years ago Christmas time was the weirdest time of the year. Used to the Christmas season categorised by darkness at … Continue reading
Bondi to Bronte
Driving down the hill into Bondi, white horses on ominous blue grey ocean. No flat, benign waterway in the mode of Coogee last weekend. Shite, thinks surfmuppet, replay of last year’s B2B coming up when the weather trolls launch a … Continue reading
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Wedding Cake Island Swim, Coogee
Arrive way early and park way up in the hills of the Coogee hinterland, beside St Bridget’s Catholic Church. Fr Terry Bowland, the parish priest, gives a great sermon on JC versus Obersturmbannführer Pilate, John 18:33-38. Surfmuppet, to those who … Continue reading
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