Sunday, June 29th, 2025

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Sunday, June 29th, 2025

Bumpy Swimming -

At 11 o'clock it was gray, 59° and breezy in Avila Beach. There was a tall fogbank that was thinner on the west and hanging onto the hills beyond the Harford Pier and on the east it was thick, rolling over Fossil Point and making like it would move into Avila Beach. The water was up to 57°, the surf was minimal and there was already a chop on the water all of the way in to the buoy line.

I saw Tom Lorish as he was getting in and headed east on the buoy line. I didn't see him in the water.

Jim, David and I planned to swim two or three triangles.

The tide was low and it seemed like we could walk to the first buoy. Swimming down the buoy line was quite bumpy. The chop was out of the SW and swimming to the end of the Avila Pier was a push against the current and through the chop. At the first buoy on the west side Jim went in, shed his wetsuit, and got back in. He is planning on doing the 5K in Santa Barbara next weekend and wanted to see how the water would feel bareback.

David and I came back along our route for our second triangle. The chop was now larger but our path relative to it was more favorable and it was flatter on the east, lee, side of the Avila Pier. Arriving at the first buoy I had lost my interest in doing a third triangle in today's conditions and came in with David.

I'll swim at 8 on Tuesday, 7 on Thursday and there is a 4th of July swim at 7 on Friday. You can join us, beat the crowds and justify eating a second piece of pie. Extra points will be awarded to anyone who swims in a colonial, wool, swimming costume.