Swim Avila - Open Water Swimming

It was gray all of the way down to the horizon and all of the way around this evening.  The surf was not large but there was a minus tide at...

Avila Beach was a big surprise today.  I was expecting a foggy/gray/overcast day but it was sunny and warm when we got there.  There was a b...

Gerry and I swam today.  The early fog burned off before 11 and left it calm and sunny at Avila.  The surf was 1 to 2 foot, the water was ve...

Nobody swam this evening.  The wind was dying down and there were no birds or seals so conditions looked pretty nice, but I was the only one...

It was gray, overcast and cool at Avila this morning but the upside was that there was no wind, current or swell and just the typical 2 to 3...

Warm Wednesday's are back!  The water was 62.5, very clear and carnivore free.  I could see one pelican, a few gulls, one lonely seal an...

Today's conditions were a copy of yesterday's; a 57 degree water temperature, very little wind and almost glassy conditions at times...

It was gray and overcast at 10:30 but burning off. The water was 56.5 and much clearer than on the previous Wednesday. The big south swell...

I've been out of town for 10 days so this was my first time in the ocean in almost two weeks. Our string of warm Wednesday's is ove...

Ryan and I swam this evening. Rob was off somewhere in the Catalina Channel swimming support for a friend who was attempting his second cr...

Rob and I did a extra swim Tuesday evening. At 6 PM we swam from Avila Beach to Olde Port Beach which is west of Avila towards the port....

Not much swimming went on at Avila today. It seemed like everybody had a story of recent extremely sharky conditions at Avila or a siting n...

It was another warm Wednesday, and there will be more on that later in this post. It was breezy but sunny and pleasant at Avila. There was...

AT 10:15 the sun was coming out, there was no wind and the water was 59. About 100M south and west of the end of the Avila Pier there was a...

Rob, Ryan and I leaned against the railing above the beach from 5:20 until almost 6, watching the pelicans dive on a mass of bait fish abou...