Bob’s Coronation

Milton Ulladulla Rotary Club

The Coronation: Pic: Brian Morrison officiates, Tues. June 24, 2014

Over eighty people were in attendance. Distinguished guests included family members, friends, (Note: no swimmers were invited) MP Shelley Hancock, Lyn White, community leaders, the Presidents of the local View Clubs, the commodore of the marine Rescue NSW Ulladulla branch Ken Lambert and the Rotary District Governor Maureen Manning.

It was a sober occasion as Bobby pondered the task ahead providing leadership & change during the next 12 mths reinventing the local rotary group to meet the challenges of the modern era with a contingent of elder statesman. 

One swimmer asked : How were the swimmers to address Bobby in future? Would it be Sir? When we went to school we addressed the head honcho (teacher) as Sir!

How will Lyn address Bob????  What about .. ??

There were no end to the questions, so the young reporter thought it best to excuse himself.

Carnage on Tuesday: With wind gusts reportedly up to 100 Km / hr. The Mollymook shopping centre lost electrical power and was blacked out during the day whilst trees were blown over in the wind gusts. The back wash from the wind on the ocean was larger than the shore breaks.

Feedback:

• Re Post – Heat rising from the water: ….. that was absolutely beautiful swimming in the mist. We had the mist around us. We had aqua blue clear water covering us like a warm blanket. We had the amazing sunrise with rays of gorgeous light and the half moon heading to the west of us! It really couldn’t get any better than that!! A very spiritual early morning! Issi.
  

• Re Post – Billy’s pie: That pie of Billy”s sure looks good to me. We miss you all very much seeing all these beautiful pictures. You make us SO home sick. However water temp here 22 C.  Allie and Bruce, Noosa – Qld.

• Re Post – Billy’s pie: Billy that was the  best pie I’ve ever tasted. Issi.

Winter arrives and what do the swimmers do?

• Bruce and Allie head north to a warmer climate in their new Winnebago
• Jackie and Brian head to the outback: It was 2 degrees overnight in Junee in their camper and a later pic of their platter in Balranald.
• Billy throws out a challenge to all the men – “Can you bake a better apple pie”?

Feedback:

• In response to the article: “In honour of Graeme – June 5, 2014
  • Brian emailed in from the outback; What do you mean “In honour of Graeme”???? Has Wolfie died and no one’s told me??
  • Bruce and Allie emailed; “Great article, hope Graeme enjoyed his birthday as much as we did”.
  • Issi emailed; “What a lovely night we had! Nice photos of us all”!
• In response to the article: “Swimmers tour of the local wineries”
  • Issi emailed: “How good is all that…. funny. Would have loved to have been there I would have had a ball too. How very interesting is our Ray……. I love him”..

Senior Ocean Swimmers Winery Tour

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The day started with our usual swim, although our carer for the day swam early with Karelle and Jackie, without a clearance from the board of directors, this will be noted! The bus arrived at Milton with our carer, (Heather) and her able assistant Paul, to pick up Ray,Jo and the special reporter of the day, Young Billy was next, ( solo so he partnered Ray for the day!) then on to Banister Head for the new residents Jacqui, John and the Canberra reps, Helen and Neill.

Our bright eyed and bushy tailed group of the Mollymook ocean swimmers descended upon Cupids winery to start the the annual wine fest tour of the Ulladulla and surrounding district wineries. A collection of on the spot photographs show our brave little band of sippers as the day wore on to slip into a more decadent seasoned lot of motley drinkers.
As you will observe from the accompanying photos all out enjoying the beautiful crisp country air of a South Coast winters morn discussing the venue of the day with Neil & Helen our Canberra connection soaking it all in.

So the day started off rather nicely discussing the various bouquet’s and aromas of some of our districts fine wines on offer.

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