I'll swim at 11 tomorrow. Neither Jodi or Tiki will be joining me. We'll see who else shows.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Saturday, May 28th, 2022
I'll swim at 11 tomorrow. Neither Jodi or Tiki will be joining me. We'll see who else shows.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Thursday, May 26th, 2022
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
I've no meeting this Thursday so I'll try getting in at 7 again.
niel
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Saturday May 22nd, 2022
The water is getting a little dirty but the swell made the swimming more fun.
Tom swam today. We didn't see him.
David, Jodi and probably Tiki should be joining me tomorrow at 11.
niel
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
I got in the water at 9:30 this morning, a nice way to follow up a 90 minute ZOOM meeting.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
I got in at 7:50 and swam a clockwise loop. Avila was overcast with a light wind. The air temperature was 51° and the water was 51.5°.
Tom and Sue swam at 9.
I'll swim at 8:45 on Thursday.
niel
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Sunday, May 15th, 2022
At 10:30 Avila was 60° and cool with no sun, white clouds with gray bottoms and a light wind. Not really shorts and t-shirt weather. The water was up to 53°, very clear and green colored. The breeze was out of the east and strong enough to put a small chop on the water.
Tiki and I got in at 11 and swam down to Fossil Point. Tiki wanted to swim to the sea level cave on the cliff face. When we got close to the mouth of the cave she kept going so I followed her. The tide was high enough that we floated over the rocks and ended up sitting on the clean rocks in the cave. What a great spot! We swam back to the end of the Avila Pier and in.
As a first year lifeguard Tiki is working just Saturdays and had two rescue/assists yesterday.
I wish I'd had my camera on today's swim but it flooded yesterday. That was my fourth Ricoh WD-70. They have been very reliable, lasting 3 years or so before they die by leak, a electronic failure or in one case, being flung out of my sweatshirt pocket to land hard on the street. I was ready to buy another one but first decided to browse the GoPro website and, well, they were having a $200 off sale on the GoPro10, so soon I will be able to shoot high definition video myself cliff diving off of Fossil Point and wrestling sharks.
I'll be back Tuesday morning at 8.
niel
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
Tiki, myself and a new friend got in a bit after 8. The new guy (sorry about forgetting your name) is a member of the Dolphin Swimming Club in San Francisco and moved here a year ago. He swam a mile bareback and Tiki and I did 2.25 miles.
Tiki and I will swim tomorrow at 11.
niel
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Tuesday it will not be breezy until the afternoon so my 8AM swim should be less special.
niel
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Thursday, May 5, 2022
It was cold wading in and cold swimming. The lack of sun was making the water feel a degree or two lower than my measured temperature. Initially I had thought that after I'd hit the end of the Avila Pier the second time I'd swing over to and around the reef buoy and come back to the pier along the buoy line but I was ready to get out. That worked out OK because Tom and I passed each other about half way along the pier.
Tom and I will swim at 9 and 8 as usual on Saturday morning.
No Jodi Saturday because she is out of town in Hawaii, bearing up under the pressure of 78° water.
niel
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022