Sunday, March 13rh, 2022

 Avila Beach, Sunday morning at about 10:30. No crowds yet. Thin high clouds and 60°. No surf and flat water but I could feel that the wind out of the East was starting. The water was 54° and didn't feel any warmer than yesterdays 53. Pat thought it was colder but then he hadn't zipped with wetsuit up all of the way.   

I proposed that we take advantage of the water being so flat and swim all of the way down the beach and up close to the rocks at Fossil Point. I thought that we would double back along the beach all of the way to the mouth of the creek but instead we went to the end of the Avila Pier, over to the end of the Cal Poly Pier and finished with the 1000M leg back to the beach. That was fine except for that wind. The leg between the ends of  the Avila and CP Piers was really choppy, and that was with the chop behind us. Heading back to the beach was across the chop and even more physical until we had the Avila Pier between us and the wind and things flattened out some.     

Pat at Fossil Point

Jodi

and David.

The water was flat enough that even with a negative tide we were able to swim close to the rocks.

I'll be back Tuesday morning at 8.

niel