Saturday, November 1st. 2025

 Niel's Saturday Morning Swim Report - 

For our Saturday morning swim Avila Beach served up dense fog and an increasing swell. The air temp was 48° and the water was 56°. It was calm and the water was smooth with a bit of a swell. The waves were peaking at 4 foot. Jodi, Tom L., Jim, Paula and Niel were swimming this morning.  

We couldn't see the swim buoys from the beach so the plan was to swim out to the #1 buoy and see if the #2 buoy on that side was visable from #1. If it was we could swim buoy to buoy down the line and back. If we couldn't see the #2 buoy we could swim around the pier to #1 on the west side and see what cold be seen from over there.

From #1 we swam around the pier. From #1 on the west side we could just make out the #2 buoy so we set out and swam buoy to buoy to #4 and back to #1, came back around the pier to #1 on the east side and were now able to swim the east side buoys down and back. At this point everybody but I went in. I swam around the pier and came in on the east side for 3201M. 

The was a good swim. The water felt nice and the navagation chalenges were fun. Everybody kept together and had a good time. 

NOAA is predicting larger waves from now into Tuesday, Surfline says 0 to 1 foot. The Surfline predictions for Avila Beach have been way off; 0-1 when it was 5'+/-.

I'll swim tomorrow at 11, which is 12 PM if you don't set you clocks back. 

niel