Jodi and I got in at 7. The conditions were 55°, foggy and still, small waves and 59° water that would pick up some small chop and swell over the next 90 minutes. The water is still nice and clean.
The fog was pretty thick so we decided to swim to the #4 buoy at the mouth of the creek, over to the 2nd crossbars on the Cal Poly Pier, out to the end of the pier and back the way we had come to the #4 buoy, then hit the end of the Avila Pier, the #4 buoy on the east side and back to the start.
We could see well enough to know what direction to swim and once we got closer we fine tuned our course.
Mr. Garmin put some extra jogs in my plot today. I swam out and back along the west side of the CPP but the plot has me coming back on the east side and the squiggle in the plot between the second crossbars and the #4 buoy is a bit wacky. We did swing further to the south around an anchored sail boat to give the kelp and a whole family of otters more clearance but I didn't double back like the plot shows. The rest of the plot looks correct.
Niel and Jodi at the end of the CPP
59° water was sure welcome, making this a nice relaxing swim. It is hard to imaging doing this just 3 months ago in water that was 10 degrees colder.
By 8:30 the fog had lifted enough to almost be low clouds and visibility was more than a mile.
I'll swim tomorrow at 11. The beach will be really crowded but maybe it will be warm and sunny.
niel
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