The best news of the swim was 'no red tide'. Tom had found clean water yesterday. I thought that there was an equal chance of it being clean or dirty today and I got lucky.
At 7 the air temperature was 56°, the water was 58°, it was very gray with what looked like rain clouds (!?). There was no wind and the water was smooth except for nice long period swell.
I had not been out to the Avila Rock in a while. From the beach it looked like the massive amount of kelp that had surrounded the rock this summer was much reduced so I went to see if I could swim around the rock.
The kelp dies off in the fall. There was a wide area on the west side of the rock that was full of floating pieces of kelp that ranged from small bits to 10'+ stalks. It looked like most of the kelp was gone. I was able to circle the rock with just 20' of kelp crawling.
The swell created a nice lift and drop near the rock.
Duke texted that he was taking a gap day today.
I'll swim Saturday at 7 and Sunday at 11.
niel
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