Early morning swimmers – Bronte Beach Baths, Sydney
©beeblu
Our quotidian rituals
bring discipline,
structure
and joy
to our hours;
they are the anchors
of our existence.
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Wonderful. I love the black and white and the words are perfect!
Hello, Julie 🙂 Thanks – I’m thinking of doing a life writing course at uni and asking some of the the tidal pool swimmers from across Sydney if they’d be my subjects.
Brr!
What do you mean?! This is Australia 🙂 Actually the water on the East coast at Sydney’s latitude doesn’t get particularly warm, so it can be a bit brrrr, particularly in winter
I knew it!
Terrific and I imagine it is freezing too. Love the b&W shot. 😉
Thanks, Elizabeth 🙂
I also like the b&w photo. It does look chilly.
Thanks, NN – it can be depending on the time of year.
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Seems that B&W photos are back in style these days…quite like this one.
Thanks, Charles.
Love it…I have spent some great times right there. WOW…memories
Do you swim much over in NZ, Jo? Hope Jack is doing OK. Will pop over to catch up in a short while.
Not a lot. Where I live the water is tidal and cold a lot. In summer I do like going to the beach…but don’t get there as often as I like. Jack is doing better.. She has been eating – though at the moment I am keeping it at a little and often for a few days. Still no idea what it was, but I am hopeful we are coming out of it.
Re, Jack, I was wondering if she could have been bitten by something, but you don’t get too many poisonous critters (if any) over there.
We do get the White Tail Spider [an Aussie immigrant like me] which is also venomous. Other than that nothing really. I also have an idiot neighbour who likes to spread slug/snail bait in a very public garden down my drive. We have had a few *discussions* over that. Who knows if she has been up to her tricks again..
Hi BB!
Hello Bathing Beauties at Bronte Beach Baths! 😉
Hello, Nancy 🙂
All shapes and sizes make up the beauties.
You mean like beer o’clock – haha – they are anchors indeed (more so for some people – I don’t seem to have much in way of routines in my life – which of course drives the aspies around me nuts 😉 ). The photo does look great in black and white, as others have pointed out – looks like something from the olden days.
Yes! That’s one anchor that’s well entrenched, if nothing else, haha 😀 Thanks, Gabe
I wanna go there… some day 🙂 love it!
Hello Patricia – thanks, and welcome to my blog 🙂
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Thanks, Segmation.
Oh yes. THey ARE the anchors of our existence. I love that photo. I feel like I could just walk down the steps and plunge in….
Hello, Selma 😀
Yaay – so good to see you back!
Love the water. This looks delightful.
There are many tidal pools along the coast here, Renee – we don’t get down to the beach nearly often enough unfortunately.
I love the black and white photo, Bluebee. And to swim here, in a protected space, with the power of the ocean just beyond, would be fabulous.
Thanks, Monica – it’s one I took 6 years ago with my old film camera. Swimming in the tidal pools and the sea is a daily ritual for many who live at the coast here (not for those of us stuck out in the ‘burbs’) If I lived in a beach suburb I’d be in the water every day too 🙂