A Vietnamese man praying for refugee status in Australia has had his message in a bottle received. A clear, cone-shaped bottle with the words “I am a Cat” washed up on Wollongong’s North Beach, outside Stuart Park. In the palm-sized bottle are six carefully rolled pieces of
Read more →WHENEVER I consider skipping my swim, I think of Ted’s motto. Ted Hinge is mates with JB (who featured in the previous blog post, “A bit of a legend”), and has been swimming at the Wollongong Continental Pool for 12 years. He jumps in all year round,
Read more →I can hardly believe I swam all through winter with the likes of JB. JB is a Wollongong Continental Pool stalwart who I met on a 13-degree gusty Tuesday afternoon in winter. He was the one and only person in the smaller of the Conti pools that
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