Saturday, February, 12th, 2022

'Let's Swim Over To That Boat'

Jodi gets the prize for suggesting today's route. There has been a rumor that on some of his swims Tom Lorish has gone west of the Cal Poly Pier to The Far Side and into the pleasure craft anchorage. Jodi suggested we swim over there today and so we did and had a new adventure.

Jodi, Niel and Tiki swam out and over to the second crossbars on the CPP. Tiki needed to swim short today and headed back from there. Jodi and Niel looked west and Jodi said 'let's swim over to that boat' and so we entered The Far Side. We swam to our first boat and continued with that plan with the idea of swimming a circular route that would take in some or most of the boats in the anchorage. This made our swim a bunch of short legs. Our route circled about half to 2/3's of the pleasure craft.  Some were anchored too far out and others were way west most of the way to the Port San Luis Pier. The distance worked out nicely.  We were stalking Tom but didn't see him. He may have figured out our plan. 

At 8 the air temp had been 41°. It was sunny with a dying offshore breeze and felt like it would warm up quickly. The water 55.5°, still nice and clear and pretty flat. There was three foot plus surf with nice gaps to get out through.  Avila looked like a summer weekend thanks to the nice weather and a 3 day weekend. 

Niel and Jodi on The Far Side

Tomorrow will see Niel, Jodi, Pat and Duke swimming at 11. Maria, Heidi and Tom should be out there earlier.  John, Jonny and Amy will swim late afternoon. 

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