Chloe's Rotto Swim

On Saturday night, after the Black-Ice team wins the mixed team section of the Bloody Big Swim [with Chloe leading off], Chloe will then travel to Perth for her world record attempt at a triple crossing of the Rottnest Channel.

My contacts over in Perth tell me that Monday the third of February is looking really good for her attempt. We all have our fingers crossed and hope she can achieve this incredible feat.

Chloe has already appeared on two radio shows this week and has given the Black-Ice team a good plug. Chloe has also agreed to donate her “Shark Shield” to the Black-Ice team after her triple Rotto swim. It may come in handy when we try the South Channel Island swim, a swim that has been put on hold for three months now due to poor conditions and the limited opportunities in having all our swimmers together at one time.

Last night, the temperature reached 43.5 degrees at 6pm at our beach in Black Rock. This was the second highest temperature recorded in Melbourne's history. Despite the heat, there was a group of 30 to 40 wimps putting on wetsuits for a squad session. It’s bad enough that people wear these cheat suits at any time, let alone on one of the hottest days ever. Don’t wear wetsuits in our town or on our beach.

To all those other tourists who come down and leave cigarette butts on our beautiful beach, I will now be approaching the local council and lobbying to have smoking banned not only on our beach, but all beaches . It was hard enough to breathe in the stifling heat last night, let alone having smoke blown in your face. These pigs then leave their butts in the sand.

If you throw rubbish on the beach, you get fined. These pigs think they can legally butt their cigarettes in the sand. I just don’t get it, just like I don’t get why the wimps wear wetsuits on a 40 degree day .

I bet that the Black-Ice team will be the only swimmers not wearing wetsuits in Saturday’s Bloody Big Swim, which will also be around 40 degrees.

If you wear a wetsuit, you should be put into another category.

Travel up to Sydney and see if you can find anybody wearing a wetsuit in any of their open water swims.

Next time you travel down to the beach, try swimming without your stupid wetsuit and I’m sure you will feel so much better swimming naturally.

I bet you don't turn up to the pool wearing your suit!!

Who cares if it takes another minute or two to complete your swim? At least you’ll know that you’re not cheating and the sharks won’t mistake you for a seal