Sunday, August 3rd, 2025

 Sunday -

Jim and I took a turn around the big pool today. The conditions were a bit iffy at the start but they turned out to be just fine.  It was foggy when I arrived in Avila.  As I was about to go down the stairs to the beach Tom Lorish hailed me. He was changing after his swim so we talked about swimming things. He thought the water temperature was in the high 50's and how there has not been any plankton blooms this year, so we have had nice clean water this summer instead of the nasty red brown funk that is typical for the water this time of the year.

I measured a water temperature of 60° from the pier. The air temp was 59°, the was a breeze coming and going and it looked like the fog was lifting. Jim and I talked about doing about 2000M. Jim is is working to regain his natural swimming mojo so he was going without a wetsuit and would head in when he got cold enough. The surf was 2 foot with occasional sets of 3 - 4+ footers.           

The wind came up and it cleared as we were swimming over to the Poly Pier. The water had gotten choppy and was pushing towards the beach. Jim headed directly back to the base of the Avila Pier and I came in along the p. pier and over to the buoy line.  Along the buoy line I had to  push right to stay parallel to the beach. 

The water felt like it was 60°.  We had a very nice swim.

I will not swim on Tuesday but plan to be here on Thursday and Saturday at 7 and next Sunday at 11.

niel