Sunday, September 14th, 2025

 My Sunday Fog Swim - 

Arriving at 10:30 I found Avila Beach to be all fog. I could just see the buoy line from the beach, from the water I could see from one buoy to the next. It was 60° and the water was 61°. There was a light breeze from the SW to the SE. I encountered funky water at just one spot along the Poly Pier, otherwise it was nice and clean. There were a few pelicans and cormorants, otherwise it was pretty quiet out there. 

Swimming out and back along the Poly Pier seemed more interesting than swimming buoy to buoy to buoy because I'd have the pier to follow.  I swam out and west down the buoy line to #4, estimated the location of the second crossbars in the fog and headed for the Poly Pier.     

I got off course a bit to the right and hit the inshore kelp bed. When I took a look around these two otters checking me out. I jogged left to give then a wide birth and continues to the P Pier.  Half way to the end of the pier I saw sunshine to the west. At the end of the pier I was in a big sunny hole with the fog hanging on the hills to the west and north, holding well offshore and wrapping around to Fossil Point at the east end of Avila Beach.         

The wind was picking up and swinging from the SW to the SE. I retraced my route and got out after 1:15 in the water.

I'll swim Tuesday morning at 7 and then I'll be out of town until I swim again on Thursday 9/25.

niel