Sunday, June 12, 2011

It was beautiful at Avila Beach today with excellent swimming conditions. It was sunny and comfortably warm with only a light breeze that was too weak to put any chop on the water. The water was 56 with very small surf. Swimming today were Sylvia, Niel, Susan James, Pete, Rebecca and Jerry Gross. Susan is from Bakersfield and swims with us when she is over here. Rebecca is from Fresno and this was her first swim with us. They are both going to do the Alcatraz Shark Fest later this month. Sylvia and Jerry swam the buoy line. The rest of us headed out to the end of the pier, turned right and swam over to the second set of crossbars on the Poly Pier, came back towards the mouth of the creek to the the last of the now 3 (!) buoys in the line and along the buoy line, under the pier and in. This was about 1.3 miles and we were in the water for 44 minutes. The wind never picked up so I stayed until past 1 enjoying the beautiful weather.

niel