Yipee ....a Sunday swim in Autumn and a celebration of all those good sort who swam some incredible lengths over Summer.
A whopping 125 people qualified over summer for the 6km badge and 41 for the 10km. Well done to all of you!
We headed to Royal Far West to congratulate them all.
Best blog smile!
Are these two really smiling or are they grimaces?
"You can fool many some of the time, but only one (Rainer) ALL of the time" Shaun Denton 22 March 2015.
Apparently down at B&B Central, two regular swimmers have been competing and racing back from Shelly Beach after one (let's call him Lips) called the other a Dugong (let's call him Shaun or DWSS) in a slightly err not so complimentary way (when referring to his swim). I love dugongs, they should not be insulted this way!
Enter our characters - here Rainer, or as we known him Lips. This is a photo of him in one of his unassuming poses. A lovable quick witted German who had worked on his stroke correction, many, many, times.He loves getting in the blog, so much so, I had to give up some of my Sunday reporting to give him a turn sometimes - appearing and blogging, he loves it!
Shaun, our other contender (affectionately also known as Jack Nicholson) here with his special go faster diet of seaweed, apparently reckons he has special powers and can whisper to dolphins. Hence his nickname "dolphin whisperer" or DWSS.
Sterling helping Shaun prepare for the final race today.
Lips is perplexed.........how can this happen?
Answer: The French Kick
The French kick is known by all B&B'ers, but not to our Lips.
Shaun has also been on a special diet of seaweed. It's known for its go faster effect. Shaun has been sharing his tips with Lips and basically been winding him up about his improvement and the racing wins.
Lips in response to Shaun's speed, has taken on extra coaching, discarded the rashie and tried to understand the French kick.
BUT Shaun has not been practising his swimming, but his running!
Jumping out of the water just after their 'race' starts and running to Half Way. Jumping in again and swimming in front of Lips to South Steyne.
The badge ceremony participants were here not only to get their badge, but the Big Reveal. How would Rainer react?
It was revealed to Lips that the races were all a hoax and 230 people knew about it also. Here's how to fool Lips......
So Lips has believed that he is getting slower in the water, and he wasn't.
Here's a snap from the reveal.
To help members of the B&b keep on top of the antics, the Facebook page was set up. Racing Rainer, and plenty of tips included.
The FB page has now been made public and can you can access it here.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/657434121050241/
Until today, Rainer had no clue about it! It was a closed group that had 230 members all discussing the cheating that Shaun had taken part in and how to fool Rainer.
There has even been a film made about this frivolity!
Certificates were presented at the badge ceremony and Lips took a while to click that he had been the butt of one big joke!
Little Sarah even changed her flights to be at the big reveal!
It's lovely to see, despite all of this they are still friends.
Whitewater Dinner
Whitewater restaurant has offered B&B members a 25% discount on its Thursday nightWine Dinner. See below for details. Mention B&B when you book.
Signing off Snorkles
Stats:
6km badge holders -125
10km badge holders - 41
Temp: 23.4
Racing Rainer FB members 230
No of B&B'ers that knew that the race was a joke: 230
No of fooled people who had no idea: 1. Name: Rainer.
Don't worry Rainer, you are still the funny one......
Swimmers: 170
New:19
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