Sunday, June 1st, 2025

Just Me and Warm Water Today -  

At swim time in Avila Beach it was 57° under heavy overcast and there was a breeze from the SE.  The water was getting choppy. Thanks to two hot days I measured a water temperature of 58° from the pier. A lifeguard stopped by and made sure that I had noticed that there was a regatta under way so I might find sail boats that were racing just about anywhere in the bay. I've been there and had boats that were focused on the racing get closer to me than I was comfortable with so I decided to swim over to the Poly Pier and swim out and back along its length.    

This turned out to be a great route. The chop was coming from the south. It wasn't much to swim across but once I started out along the Poly Pier the chop and push grew steadily. I decided to put that away and just do the swim and think about how it would be surfing the chop and current on the way back.  It worked out great. The pilings flew by and it felt like it took me half as much time to get back to the first crossbars.  

The sun started breaking through when I began swimming out along the P Pier. By 1 the SE wind had picked up and was blowing clouds back into the hole that had opened up over Avia.     

Starting tonight the weather will cool off and I'm expecting the water temperature to be back below 55° on Tuesday. I'll swim at 7 

niel