Dunc and I have not done as many ocean swims as we'd like to due to busy schedules, bad weather etc. However, we did manage to get a baby sitter for the early Anzac Day swim with the Bold & Beautiful group for the usual 1.6km swim from Manly Surf Club to Shelly Beach. It was glorious in the water but a bitterly cold wind above the ocean surface. At Shelly Beach, one of the regular swimmers, Greg, played 'The Last Post' on his French horn and we stood in silence as the water lapped at our ankles and we shivered in our wet swimmers in the bitterly cold wind. I shut my eyes and visualised the scene at Gallipoli - it was quite haunting hearing the lapping of the small waves and imagining being there at the time.
A few days later Laura and I did our weekly swim and counted between 20-25 baby dusky whaler sharks (about 1 metre long). They were so stunning that I took Dunc and the kids back to Fairy Bower a few days after that and we took it in turns to stay in the sea pool with Tenzin and Iona or to snorkel out with Arthur and Barney to see the baby sharks. I went out first with the boys and we didn't go far enough as they both got nervous but when Dunc had a turn they seemed to have more confidence and loved seeing the sharks swimming below.
No comments:
Post a Comment