Swim Avila - Open Water Swimming

There were six swimmers today; Sylvia, Margie, Brandon, Leslie, Tom and Dave Van Mouwerik. The water was 63 degrees with 2' waves and sm...

San Luis Obispo had a night and morning of thunderstorms with lightning and rain thanks to Tropical Cyclone Deloris.  No beach for me tod...

We had quite a crowd today. Duke, Niel, Amy Hewes, Rick, Dave VanMouwerik, Dale and Tom were joined by 6 triathletes from Fresno who w...

Mark, Kurtis and I swam Wednesday evening. I think that this was the first Wednesday evening swim of the summer. Mark and I have been t...

Our swim today was a clockwise turn of the triangle. I fat fingered a button on my GPS and got the route correct but the time and dista...

We had a great swim.  A large number of swimmers and support people turned out, the conditions were just about perfect and everyone had a ...

The plans for the 4th of July Swim are as follows; At this point we have 7 swimmers and 4 support people with kayaks or SUPs.  We will ...

I was out of town and missed the swim around the rock. This weeks post is provided by John Hampsey. Our plan to swim to Avila rock worked ...

Avila was a hole in the fog so it was sunny but coolish with a light breeze from the SE. The port has closed the pier because of safety c...

It was gray and calm at Avila at 10:30. The town was already jammed with people who came to see the whales. There were two between the Av...

Whale! The whale turning left after passing offshore of us. The end of the Avila Pier on on the left.   Camera photo from one of t...

We had 10 swimmers do the buoy line today.  There were thick gray clouds down to the horizon, no wind, 2' surf and 55 degree water.  ...

I was out of town so this post was written by John Hampsey. The day was sunny but windy and cool. The strong breeze was coming out of the ...

Avila was grey, overcast and cool. There was a light breeze out of the SW which was just enough to mess up the surface of the water and 1 to...

Lots'a Boats Today There was the inflatable towing a wake boarder around down by Fossil Point so we decided to swim on the other si...