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A Magic Spring day in Mollymook
Star attraction: Birthday boy – Graeme
‘Big John’ blitzed the field in golf (Pic credit: Ben)
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Mollymook
The water temperature was perfect, about 19 or 20 degrees and the water clarity crystal clear. Nippers began at 6.00 am followed by the ladies boat crew all in preparation for competition later in the season. The early morning swimmers (as is their ritual) arrived, with the ‘first group’ leaving at 6.30 am followed by the ‘larger group’ at 6.45 am and then later still, a ‘straggler’. The morning began with a glorious sunrise and ended with coffee and birthday cake at the Beach Hut cafe.
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THIS IS MOLLYMOOK!
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Ben filed this report on our latest sports star, Big John. He is usually missing each Thursday to play in the Thursday morning mixed golf comp.
Ben reports that last week, Nov. 12, John had an amazing round of golf! The young reporter questioned Ben, What was so amazing about John’s round of golf?
Ben said “John played the entire course without swearing!” That was nice to hear, but was there anything else on the day that may have contributed to John not swearing? Well Ben said its interesting that you asked that question, “I hadn’t giving much thought to what may have contributed to his exemplary behaviour”. I guess a few things may have help:
a) He did blitz the field scoring an unbelievable 46 points,
b) He shot 10 under his handicap.
c) He was an easy overall winner on the day out of 100 odd golfers.
Birthday Boy
Graeme and Suzanne
Suzanne’s scrumptious carrot cake
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Graeme shares some experiences with the swimmers
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Mollymook early morning swimmers
(Click on 1st image to enlarge, then thereafter on the right hand outside of each image to progress one after the other)
Mollymook 6.30 am Group
6.45 am Group to Reef and Return
6.45 am Group – Creek & Return
Bobby the straggler
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Manly early morning swimmers
Manly 7.00 am group of swimmers (Pic credit: Jo)
The return trip from Shelly Beach to Manly. (Pic credit: Jo)
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Ross files this report on his Manly swim trip: There was a huge turn-out at Manly during my morning swim with them this week. Weekdays over 100 swimmers in the larger 7.00 am group. The swim starts at Manly surf club and heads south to Shelly Beach and then return. About 1.5 Klm return journey. They have an early workers group that take off for Shelly Beach at 6.30 am and another group that head north to Queenscliff and return. Their largest group was 603 swimmers back in November 2010. It is well organised with names ticked off upon completion each morning to ensure no one went missing. Even the distances swam are recorded on a daily basis.
The daily count, total for 6:30 and 7:00 swimmers was: Monday, 110, Wed, 160, Thursday 160.( I bodysurfed Tuesday) Ross.
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Inspiration
An incredible Mollymook Sunrise – Thursday Nov 19
Monica shared this ‘Sacred Earth’ pic on her Facebook page
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Competition for Ladies Boat Crew
Brett in the background out to impress the ladies
Monica’s Facebook page: The Nth Cronulla Ladies Boat Crew
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Training is in full swing for the ‘Masters – Ladies, Boat Crew‘. The Mollymook Ladies should meet the North Cronulla Ladies in the NSW Surf Life Saving Masters competition due March 9 & 10, 2016. The NSW State titles will be co-hosted by Ocean Beach and Umina SLSCs.
The local ladies are considering the Mollymook Boat Classic on November 28, 2015 for their initial hit-out.
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