I needed a long Zen swim this morning so I planned to do about 4,000M. The swim went so well that I wandered about the ocean and wound up with 4,644M.
I got in just before 7. The air temperature was 39°. It was sunny with a gusty offshore breeze. The water's surface was choppy but it was hard to tell how bumpy it was because I was looking at it from the back. There was a small swell out of the south and the surf was wimpy. The water temperature was 53° - 54° and colder near the shore.
My route was, more or less, left along the buoys, out and around the reef buoy, to the end of the Poly Pier, in along the pier to the third crossbars and back the way I came. My drift correction and Zen state had me going left in both directions.
When I was coming back from the Poly Pier I thought I saw the Harbor District's derrick on the west side of the Avila Pier. It wasn't there when I got out but the buoys on the west side were gone, so they must be pulling them out for the winter. The ones that are on the east side will probably be gone by Thursday.
I spoke with Jim after I got out. I had gotten in just before him. We didn't see each other in the water. There were pelicans diving on some fish to the left of and beyond the end of the Avila Pier. Jim had seen whales much further out.
I'll swim Thursday and Saturday at 7 and Sunday at 11.
niel
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