Sunday, November, 9th, 2025

Niel's Sunday Swim Report - 

Sunday was different than Saturday, it was cooler and felt more like fall than yesterday's bit of summer, and there were a lot fewrer people at the beach.  At 10:30 a fog bank was hanging off of the coast. It was 67° and there was an unusual east wind which may explaing the fog hangin around. The wind was strong enough to put a good chop on the water. I measured a water temperature of 59°.   

I decided to do the Poly Pier Fog Swim. I could see a third of the shore end of the P Pier so I'd swim over to the second crossbars and out and back along the length of the pier. If the fog closed in I'd have the pier to follow.     

The wind chop was large enough to requrie some extra work to get out to the first buoy and to every other point I swam towards. The swim was all uphill. 

When I arrived at the end of the pier the fog had cleared and then closed back in after I got out. 

When I got back to the #1 buoy the tide had changed and the surf had flattened out so the 200M to the beach was the only easy part of the swim. 

I'm planning on swimming on Tuesday at 7, Thursday at 8, and Saturday at 7, unless the chance of rain late in the week washes things out. 

niel