Saturday, May 31st. 22025

 We Swim The Tom Fog Route -  

Tom Lorish created this route for days just like today. It has landmarks to navigate to when the The route is: get to the first buoy and swim buoy to buoy to #4 and then come back to #1, swim out and around the pier and swim buoy to buoy on the west side. Repeated until you have your distance or the fog burns off.   

Jodi and I were swimming this morning. It was 53° and the water was 55°.  There was no wind, small surf and a slight swell.  I couldn't see anything beyond the surf from the seawall. At the water's edge we could see the first buoy.  From the first buoy the second was barely visible so we felt our way along to #2 and on to #4, swam back and around the pier. Things were a bit brighter now so the west side was easier to navigate. We lapped the pier back to the east side and did a second leg to make our distance. Strangely, the fog was always thicker on the east side of the pier.

55° water was sure more comfortable than Thursday's 51° and the water temperature was pretty even.       

Niel and Jodi

I'll swim tomorrow at 11. 

Sunday will be cooler than the last few days and we'll be back to 70° on Monday so I'm expecting a return to a water temperature in the low 50's.

niel