Sunday, April 13th, 2025

An April Joke form the Ocean Gods - 

The ocean gods enjoyed a good joke today: This morning the water temperature was down 5 degrees from Saturday's 55° to 50.5° this morning.  I met Wayne as I was heading out the pier to take the water temp. He had swum earlier and had measured a water temp of 50° at the end of the Avila Pier. My thermometer reading from the pier was 50.5° so I rethought what today's swim was going to be like. 

I'd arrived early and got in by myself. Getting in the water didn't feel as gold as 50° but once I was beyond the surf line the full chill set in and I decided that a mile would be enough. At the end I turned in to the beach because to the fishermen on the pier (nice to have the rebuilt part finally open) and because there had been a large otter at the buoy line next to the pier.

When I arrived back at my chair David Cheney and Stephanie Popp were getting ready to get in. They were going to swim the buoy line.

niel