End of swim season braai

Well, we've done a fair bit of sea swimming this year and so it was appropriate to finish off with a braai. We (well most of us) swam the "Round the Head Classic" swim on Sunday morning. It was a bit of an early start, 7:30, but the weather was great, and it was a lovely swim. The tide was pushing us along and so those of use who swam under the jetty got an exaggerated view of our ability to swim fast. Coming round North Head and out of the Waitemata harbour I managed to confuse the promontory at the end of Cheltenham beach for a bunch of rocks I had to swim round and ended up going a bit wide, but I was not the only swimmer to do that so I was not too embarrassed. AT the end there was coffee, delicious sticky buns (Danishes actually) and cool drinks, a very civilised way to finish a swim.

The braai was at lunch time and the weather was fairly kind to us. There was Cheryl and her partner Jason, Hector, Pam, Vic & Janey and Helen as well as our family and Duncan's friend Robbie. Vic keeps a diary of his exercise and since October has swum about 220 km, not a bad achievement at all. We still are thinking about doing the swim from Milford to Narrow neck, maybe we'll do that on Monday (it's Easter this coming weekend) so we'll see how that goes.

Megan underwater

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Originally uploaded by JimBoeri.

Megan wanted something a bit different for her 13th birthday party so Alison organised a SCUBA party for her and some of her friends. It started a bit later than anticipated, but once we got going the kids had great fun. Alison & I also got in the water and got to blow some bubbles.