It was just about as good as it ever gets at Avila today; no fog, no wind, sunny and warm, almost no one fishing from the pier, no birds or bait balls and 61.5 degree water. Except for one guy in a pleasure boat it would have been perfect. Swimming today were Rob, Rick, Niel, Duke, Angela (this makes 3 times!), Jon and Gerry Gross. Rob had a more adventurous drive up from the wedding that he attended in Manhattan Beach Saturday night but he persevered and made it to Avila to swim with us before continuing to Arcata. Rob wanted to do something traditional so Duke, Rick Jon, and Niel joined him to swim the triangle counter clockwise. It was really nice in the water so we spent plenty of time at the turns. We covered just short of a mile in a casual 40 minutes of swimming and visiting while enjoying the water. On the leg from the end of the pier to the end of the buoy line we had a power boat come barreling around Fossil Point and head in towards the beach as if he was going to shoot the pier but he spotted us, throttled back and headed back out to sea.
Once back on the beach Duke went back out to swim with Angela along the left side of the buoy line and Gerry came by, got in, and swam the buoy line on his own for 45 minutes.
After our showers there was plenty of benchracing conducted on the beach before next weekends Santa Barbara tri and aqua bike. We'll see how the talk holds up two weeks from today.
niel
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