50° air, 52° flat water and misty/drippy low clouds. I was getting wet just getting into my wetsuit, but the swimming conditions were really nice so Stephanie, Leslie, Niel, Jodi and Theresa and Grace had a nice swim this morning. We had a plan to start by swimming down and back along the swim buoys on the east side but we threw that over when we first formed up at the last buoy and decided to head to the end of the Avila Pier. From there it turned into an all of the way over to there and back course. This may have been the first time I've swum a complete return trace of the route out.
Leslie's shoulder is giving her trouble so she headed back from the end of the Cal Poly Pier where we picked up Theresa and Grace who stayed with us for the rest of the swim.
Leslie (pointing), Jodi, Stephanie and Niel at the end of the Avila Pier
Jodi, Niel, Grace, Theresa and Stephanie at the end of the Cal Poly Pier.
Photo by Leslie
You know how pesky dolphins are when they want to play with you in the water, you have to give them a toy to make them happy. Flipper was being a pest so even though dolphins are lousy photographers (no opposable thumbs) I gave her (?!) my camera so she could take my picture. This was the best she could do.
Did you know that Flipper was played by 5 female; Susie, Patty, Squirt, Scotty and Kathy and one male, Clown, dolphins? And the only scenes Clown could do were the tail walks.
Check it out on the IMDB.
We do have a swim lane at Avila Beach. Under the Cal Poly Pier the lane is 620M long from the second crossbars to the end of the pier, and has no turns.
As I was getting out I spoke with Sarah and a friend who were getting in.
Great news today. Congratulations are due to Theresa who is so close to finishing her thesis and has a job offer from a water quality monitoring company in Irvine.
Duke, Niel and whoever cares to join us will swim tomorrow morning at 8. Most certainly something shorter than today unless Jodi talks us into another long one.
niel
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