Swim Avila - Open Water Swimming

Back In The Water Again - I think that it has been over two weeks since Avila Beach has been swimable. The rain has stopped and the water h...

On Friday the water off of Shell and Avila Beaches was dark brown with silty run off. The previous water quality advisory had been renewed ...

The first day of spring came in with heavy rain, high winds and conditions generally unfavorable to swimming in the ocean. The heavy rain i...

We had a real ocean swim for our first evening swim of the season. It was about 70 degrees and calm when I got to Avila. The waves were at...

The water was cold today! The reading from the the usual spot on the pier was 51.5. Our unscientific conclusion was that the tsunami tides...

2 of us met up for a swim today at 2pm. There were some good sized waves rolling through today, but unless you'd been watching the news ...

It was just Sylvia and I today. Rob was in Pasadena at the CalTech pentathlon and the dreary gray overcast wasn't encouraging. In spit...

The Saturday swim was excellent... we had 3 swimmers out, 2 swimming with us for the first time! The weather was great, the water was calm, ...

Myself and one other swimmer are planning on getting in the water tomorrow at 10 if anyone wants to join us. We'll meet up in the regula...

It was sunny and surprisingly warm at Avila Beach today. There was a small but steady breeze out of the southwest that had put a small cho...

Rob and I got to Avila early and picked up trash and other junk from the beach. On the east side of the pier I didn't find a lot of tra...

I'm going to be on the beach Sunday morning (assuming it's not pouring rain) around 9:30am to do some beach clean up if anybody want...

We got in a swim today before the weather turned to rain. It was in the mid 60's at Avila with thin high clouds and no wind. There was...

We have had a lot of unseasonably nice Sundays so far this year and today was one more that made me consider calling my nephew in Boston fro...

No swim today. We had rain over night and at least at my place in Arroyo Grande the weather wasn't looking too good this morning. I went...