Sunday, November 27, 2011

Niel, Sylvia and Susan James swam today. It was sunny and warm at Avila with no wind. The water was very clean and had a temperature of 54 degrees. Susan and I headed out, turned right. swam to the creek buoy and then to the end of the Avila pier.  Sylvia was body surfing so we came in along the length of the pier to the buoy line and met up with her. We all swam down the buoy line towards Fossil Point to the second buoy, then came back to our starting point and came in.  We were in the water for 36 minutes.
With no breeze it actually got too hot up next to the wall after our swim.  Sylvia and I had lunch and I took a short nap before heading home about 12:30.


niel

Sunday, November 20, 2011

No swimming today.  It rained hard last night and is still raining this morning, leading to concerns about the water quality at Avila Beach.  The predictions are for dry weather up to Thanksgiving, so Rob and I are looking to slip in a mid-day, mid-week swim before the next storm.  Look here or on Rob's facebook page to follow out planing.


niel  

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Avila started out OK and evolved into quite nice today.  At 10:30 it was sunny but with thin high clouds and a slight offshore breeze.  There was also a slight current running form left to right, parallel to the beach.  Rob and I had considered going out to the Fossil Point rock today but a water temperature of 54.5 made us reconsider.  Neither of us had been in water that was below 55 degrees since last spring.  We decided that this was not the best day to do a swim with a turnaround point 3/4's of a mile offshore with no way to shorten the route if someone became uncomfortable.  Amy was swimming with us and was game for some distance so we decided to swim over to the Poly Pier and back to the Avila Pier.  This route can be from 1+ to almost 2 miles depending on decisions made at 2 points along the route so it was a good choice.  Duke and Angela came by as we were getting ready, heading out on a two/three run, (Duke does 2 miles while Angela does 3).   We started on the west side of the Avila Pier and swam down the buoy line to the creek.  At this point we had collected a group of 4+ seals who would follow us for the rest of the swim.  We swam over to the Poly Pier, back to the end of the Avila Pier and in to the beach.  By the time we reached the Avila Pier the clouds had gone, the sun was warm and the offshore breeze had died away.  It was very pleasant on the beach afterwards with a small school of dolphins out off of the end of the pier.
This swim was about 1 -1/4 miles and we were in the water for 46 minutes.


niel

Sunday, November 6, 2011

It was sunny and about 60 degrees at Avila today.  The water was clear and clean with nice transparent waves and a temperature of 56 degrees.  There was a gusty offshore breeze that was blowing towards Pismo Beach that was rippling the surface but not putting up any real chop .  I was the only one swimming today.  I did the triangle counterclockwise without stopping at any of the turns.  I was swimming for 30 minutes.


niel

Cal Poly Pier Open to the Public This Weekend!

Hey everybody, just a not that the Poly Pier is open to be toured this Saturday. They only do this once or twice a year and it's very cool, I highly recommend checking it out. The New Times has more info here and you can see some of my pictures from the last time they did this on my blog over here.

Rob D.