Thursday, December 4th, 2025

 Niel's Thursday Swim Report - 

It was chisp in Avila Beach this morning. The air temperature was 38° with a steady offshore wind that had chopped up the surface of the water. The surf was 3 to 4 foot. The water temp is holding at 58° and the water felt nicer than the air.

I wanted to start by swimming out to the end of the pier. From there I swam to the second crossbars and then, to the end fo the Poly Pier and back the way I had come. 

At the buoy line before swimming in.

The swimming was nice with the chop making things interesting in different ways on each leg.

At the showers I had to go to the far end of the concrete to stand in some sunshine. 

 

When I was getting ready to get in I had wrapped each of my wool socks around a boot heater and stuffed them into my shoes. After swimming pulling on warm socks over my cold feet was almost as nice as the hot shower from my half gallon jug. 

The group will swim at 7am on Saturday.

niel