Surf’s up again at Balmoral – water temp 16.1C 4


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You may be wondering what a Meerkat has to do with swimming. Read on and you will understand its relevance…
Only the Real Idiots and a few die-hard Seasoned Idiots ventured into the choppy waters this morning. Sutho, Bevan, Dave and Judy represented the first wave of real idiots – Linda choosing to swim on her own later – was it something we said?
Ruth, Malcolm, Peter & Meryl put in a showing for the seasoned idiots. As the photos attest, it was pretty rough at the beach this morning. We swam out to the post, around Gwen’s cojones (Judy’s phrase), back across to the island for a well deserved rest, back down to the dirty cone, and into the beach. The chop could best be described as a push/pull washing machine type of motion. Those prone to sea-sickness should consider giving it a miss today.
Swimming out to the post had Dave being pushed far left and having to severely correct his direction on the swim in to the post. Sutho was the only one who seemed to stay on target. I suspect that was due to his Meerkat type of swimming – bobbing up every few metres to check his position. At the post we discussed Channel 9’s pathetic coverage of the Rugby. Why bother televising delayed games? Forget it!
Dave advised Sutho and Bevan that the distance from the beach to Barrel 1 is 610 metres and the steps to the post is 350 metres. They were both incredulous despite the distances being established by Dave when he rented a kayak and paddled the swim routes, using the walkmeter app on his iPhone to measure the distance. Look at the map below for verification of the distance.
At the wishing well change room, Sutho was telling us about his new job which reminded Dave of “Heston’s Mission Impossible.”

The map of today’s swim leg looks like this


About Dave

Dave has been an idiot for longer than he can remember. However, his Real Idiot status was confirmed about 20 years ago when Linda and Bevan coaxed him out to the post. Developer and administrator of this website as well as reporter, photographer, and chief spell-checker. Thankfully, other idiots contribute to the site to keep it interesting...

4 thoughts on “Surf’s up again at Balmoral – water temp 16.1C

  • Dave Post author

    HAHAHAHAHA… WELCOME BACK SUTHO!!!!! YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!! One down and one to go…. so what was the John Dory?

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    Ian

    Yippee….Meerkat Sutho is back in ! And a very sensible style it is when the swell is running about 2 ft ! And have to agree on the sperm shake comment….probably a bit too early for some of the older members……leaves a bad taste in their mouths apparently !

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