The Glistening Dave Pano ... Glorious Bronte, on a glorious summer Sunday.

The Glistening Dave Pano ... Bronte Park, home of a multiculchural polyglot.

The Glistening Dave Pano ... Bondi on a magnificent summer Sunday afternoon.

Celso Cam: Celso Grati arrived late, indeed too late to register. So what's a zealous Italian to do? You have to give him something to work off all that energy. So we asked Celso to carry our GPS, although we insisted he obtain his own prophylactic in which to place it on his head. Here's his course. Note how straight is the leg from Mackenzies Point into Bronte. We think the CIA is fooling around with ocean swimming, just quietly. Organisers said the course was "spot on 2km". Google Earth agrees. Our GPS, on Celso's noggin,mind you, reckoned 2.4km. He's a peripatetic lad, our Celso.

Arkitectcha from Glistening Dave. He sees things most of us don't But then, most of us don't down three bottles of red before dinner.

Spot Anderson swam, in knee-length light blue boardies, but his name doesn't appear in the results. Other swimmers have told us their names don't appear in the results, either. We saw John Konrads after the swim, too, but his name doesn't appear in the results. See Feedback (click here) for Murray Rose's dilemma: he won his age group -- as a female! The timing anklet allocated to Bronte WunderVater Maurice Westerweller mysteriously disappeared before the start. Other swimmers appear in the results with some very weird times. What's going on? Spot looks like he's up to something ....

Swampy Attwater, the first rule of surfing: don't turn your back on the break!

Here's a funny thing. Our old cobber Zipper, was sweeping one of the Bronte boat crews rostered onto water safety on Sunday, but club executives were surprised to see Zipper beaching his boat just after winner Josh Santacaterina hit the beach. Club Executive Snakey Miles asked him what was going on. Zipper said the boys had had enough and weren't feeling well, and they were off. As youngsters, or rather as younger coves than we are now, oceanswims.com was paid $200 by a Japanese film crew to help carry a surfboat across Bronte Beach, and we got to keep the cossies, too. And this lot are doing it for nothing! That's boaties for you.

Glistening Dave's study of the start of the Boofheads Dash for Cash.

And then his study of the finish. Look at that character coming down that wave! Textbook stuff.

And Glistening Dave's study of the start of the Laydies Dash for Cash, and he got it just at the right moment.

Tama surf club, usually regarded as the poor cousin of Bronte and the Bondi clubs, is undergoing a bit of a renaissance with the help of ocean swimmers. The TOSSers swim out of here, and now they're organising their own swim, on April 13. Thank you, Glistening Dave, for capturing this historic club so artfully.

Sydney icons.

Jogging 'round the point, early morning.

The Elite start.

Youngsters start.

A bit older start. Look at that laydy screaming out in front! An example for us all.

This bloke saw the camera and headed straight for it.

The melee on the way to the first booey.

How long can he keep that water up there?

Goosebumps.

Rounding the point.