Duke and I had a great swim today. Avila Beach was sunny and warm with a steady wind out of the SE. There was no fog, one pelican and one sea otter in the water, no one fishing and a 51 degree water temperature. We decided to start out down the buoy line to the left and to see how we felt about the water temperature. By the time we were getting in the chop from the SE wind was white capping between the end of the pier and the buoys. I got slapped around a lot on the way down to the end of the buoy line which seemed to keep my mind off of the water temperature. At the end of the buoy line we both thought that we were having fun that we headed to the end of the pier. The wind had started shifting so we still had the wind chop on our left shoulders but would also be swimming into 1 foot wind waves. The leg to the end of the pier left us feeling pretty studly, up to the point that we were hailed by a female lifeguard who was doing a lap around the pier towing a 5 gallon bucket! The leg towards the creek mouth was the easiest because we were swimming across the wind waves and the leg back to the pier was just kind'a messy. Duke and I enjoyed a real ocean swim and covered just over a mile in 35.5 minutes. It was nice and warm on the beach. Rick and Rhonda came by.
It is supposed to be HOT on Wednesday so I'm planning on making to the beach for our 5:30 swim.
niel
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