Avila Beach was doing its best to be summer in October today. It was warm with clear skies, no wind and very clear 56 degree water. We had a nice crowd today; Niel, Fred, Sylvia, Duke, Rob, Ali, Tom, Rick, John H., Amy, Gerry and Fast John. Stephen, Mary Ann and Brad got in late and swam a similar route. The water conditions were great for swimming but we had a couple of man made conditions to work around. The buoys were set out for a yacht race and the participants were forming up off of the end of the Avila pier so that part of the ocean was off limits, and there were two or three jet skis messing around at the mouth of San Luis Creek so heading down that was was not a good idea. We elected to stay on the east side of the pier and swim down towards Fossil Point and back. It was great having the rare opportunity to swim at Avila in water as clear as it was today. I could see shadows and shapes on the bottom in 12 to 15 feet of water. There were some real cold spots, especially near the pier and where the bottom was rocky. We swam 1499 meters in 33 minutes.
I'll be out of town next Sunday and Rob and Allison are supporting one of the last Catalina Channel swim attempts for this year on Friday and may not be back in time, so I'm appointing Duke swim master for next Sunday.
niel
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