We call it fog….
... when the marine layer is thick and low. See picture.Friday, July 26, 2024
Friday, July 26th, 2024
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
Tom's Wednesday Swim Report -
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
Monday, July 22, 2024
Monday, July 22nd, 2024
What you see is what I got… conditions remain similar to what they have been for the last couple weeks. Heavy marine layer, 59° air, 58° water, flat calm and nice swimming.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Sunday, July 21st, 2024
This route was 1st buoy on the east, 4th buoy on the east, end of Avila Pier, 4th buoy on the west, 1st buoy on the west, end of Avila Pier, end of CP Pier, to the 2nd crossbars, to the 4th buoy on the west, to the 1st buoy on the east and in.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Saturday, July 20th, 2024
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Thursday, July 18th, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
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Monday, July 15, 2024
Monday, July 15th, 2024
On a different topic, and hopefully blog master Niel will include this in the report… I want to recognize and acknowledge the amazing ocean swimming that Niel has been doing over the years and more specifically in these recent months. In case you missed it, he celebrated his 74th birthday by swimming 7400 meters. And has been regularly following that up with four and 5000 meter swims on a whim. He is an ageless wonder. And if he ever offers you one of his birthday brownies, except it! They are incredibly tasty.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Sunday, July 14th, 2024
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Saturday, July 13th, 2024
Friday, July 12, 2024
Friday, July 12th, 2024
Tom's Swim Report -
Similar conditions to Wednesday at Avila this morning. Thick marine layer, slight breeze, water was calm with a small bump on it. My toes tell me the water temperature was 54, 55. The swimming was very nice.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Thursday, July 11th, 2024
The weather at Avila is such that I could use one of Tom's recent posts for my swim this morning;
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
Tom's Swim Report -
Heavy marine layer at Avila this morning. Or was it high fog? Are they the same? I don't know. I do know the air temperature was 60° when I arrived at nine 9 AM. It was low tide and the water was mostly flat with a slight bump to it. See the picture – looking out to the rock buoy and Avila rock. The water temperature was 56° – and the clarity was excellent again after a weekend of murkiness. It makes me think that the warmer water and the murkiness are linked together. But, that is just speculation. The swimming was excellent, though.
Monday, July 8, 2024
Monday, July 8th, 2024
Tom Lorish's Swim Report -
Fog, fog, and more fog, with a cool breeze blowing on shore. Those were the conditions when I arrived at 9 AM. the water had a slight bump on it and was 56° on the east side, and 57 with some spots 58 on the west side. By the time I got out at 10:20, the fog was burning off. See before and after pictures. Good way to start the week.
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Sunday, July 7th, 2024
This photo of us at the end of the Poly Pier didn't capture the magnitude of the wind chop. The swim from the end of the Avila Pier to the end of the Poly Pier took me 28 minutes. The swim back took 16 minutes.
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Saturday, July 6th, 2024
I'm swimming tomorrow at 11.
niel
Friday, July 5, 2024
Friday, July 5th, 2024
Tom's Swim Report -
Another gorgeous day at Avila this morning. Very similar to the 3rd of July. 60° air temperature when I arrived at 9 AM. The fog was just starting to burn off and the water was glassy and calm. The water temperature was about 57° and the water clarity was excellent. In the "whoops, this might've been a bad idea" department, as I was getting out of the ocean, the Port Authority for reasons unclear to me decided to drive one of their big utility trucks out onto the beach, and promptly got it stuck in the sand. After my shower, they were continuing to prove the notion that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. They kept spinning their wheels and getting sunk in deeper. I'm guessing those two guys won't be allowed to drive onto the beach anytime soon.
Final note; as I was driving off the tractor was out there trying to help extract the truck.
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Niel, Jodi and Tom Israel got in at 7. We could see the #1 buoy from the beach so we swam to it and then could swim buoy to buoy along the left side and back to the pier, stopping a lot to keep the next buoy in sight. We swam out and around the pier, then out and back along the buoys on the right side, back around the pier and in. The sun was starting to poke through when we were getting out. The water temp was 55° close to shore and 56°+ near the end of the Avila Pier. The water was flat and glassy and the surf was small.
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Tom's Swim Report -
Beautiful conditions all around at Avila this morning. I arrived at 915 AM. The air temperature was 63°, with fog but decent swimming visibility. See picture below. The water was calm and glassy again, the clarity was excellent, and the temp was up to about 58°. Excellent third of July Swim.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Tuesday, July 2ed, 2024
The #1 buoy at the end of my swim. The wind and chop had died down and the visibility had improved since I got in.