Saturday, August 23rd, 2025

The Weather Changes - 

This morning the morning fog was thick all of the way from San Luis Obispo to Avila Beach. I could see the first two buoys on the east side of the pier.  Paula arrived at the same time and in the time it took for us to walk out on the pier and measure a 61° water temperature the fog had lifted enough so that we could see the Poly Pier. It was 57° and calm. The surf was one foot plus and the water was smooth and glassy.

Jodi arrived and we decided to start out with Tom's Fog Route, which is back and forth along both sides of the the buoy line with a loop around the pier in the middle.  Paula was looking for 3,000M and so we would do laps until we had our distance. 

We began by going and east. When we arrived at the end of the Avila Pier it had cleared enough that we decided to swim to the end of the Poly Pier, in to the second crossbars, back to the end of the Avila Pier and in to the beach.  

Jodi, Paula and Niel but no whale at the end of the Poly Pier 

I was the last to arrive at the end of the P Pier. Paula and Jodi asked if I had seen the whale that was off of the end of the pier.  I'd been keeping my head down and missed seeing the leviathan.  

Paula will swim at 8 tomorrow with a goal of 5K before tapering to her 10K swim on 9/7.  That is too early and long for me. I'll swim about 3K at 11. 

niel