Two Benchmarks -
For the first time this season at 7AM the air temperature was below 50°, at 49°, and the water temperature had slid to 55°.
Soon there may be frost on the pumpkins soon.
For the rest of today's conditions we had fog, a light offshore wind, 2 to 3 foot surf with an occasional 4 footer, no swell to speak of and no chop. The offshore breeze did provide a strong smell of bacon from the Custom House kitchen as we were swimming.
Niel, Tom and Jodi were swimming.
At 6:45 the was a hole in the fog between the Avila and Poly Piers so we started planning a back and forth route between the two piers. By the time we were ready to get in the fog had moved west from Fossil Point and I could not see the end of the Avila Pier, let alone the lights on the end of the Poly Pier.
Plan B was to start down the buoy line to the east to the last buoy and see what we could see to swim to from there. From the 4th buoy we could clearly see the end of the Avila Pier so we swam to there. At the end of the Avila Pier we could now see the entire Poly Pier so we swam to the end of the CPP and in to the second crossbars where there was a nice spot of sun . then we headed back into the gray to the end of the Avila Pier and in to the beach.
At the end of the Avila Pier
Tom, Jodi and Niel
At the showers my jug of hot water, wool turtleneck, fleece and Uggs are beginning to be considered the best part of the swim.
I'm swimming tomorrow at 11.niel
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