Swim Avila - Open Water Swimming

I was out of town so today's post is by John Hampsey and Duke. Avila blog   January 28, 2018 We had a solid swim group today for J...

The large swell that was hitting the west facing beaches managed to push up some 4'+ waves at south facing Avila but the lulls between ...

Conditions today were very much like last Sunday, except better. Like last week, runoff from rain earlier in the week had the bacteria count...

We had beautiful swimming conditions today except for the fog. The visibility kept changing, promising to clear and then closing back i...

For the last swim of 2017 we had a wintery day at Avila Beach. It was cool with thin high overcase which took all of the warmth out o...

Sunday, December 24, 2017 The sky was slated with thin grey clouds and the air temp was 60 degrees with a slight breeze. The beach was de...

We had 12 swimmers today; Heidi, Hillary, Niel, Sydney, Sam, Karen, Sarah, Duke, Emily, Sarah, (were there two Sarahs or did I miss a name?)...

The Thomas fire near Ventura is 120 miles south of San Luis Obispo. The wind has been out of the NE which was blowing the smoke from th...

Plans were in place for us to do a supported 1.5 mile round trip swim out to the rock off of Fossil Point today but the weather had oth...

Today started out overcast and cool with rain showers over Pismo Beach. A nicely timed hole in the clouds gave us sun while we were swimm...

Unexpected Swimming with Leviathan We had an unexpected encounter with a humpback whale while we were swimming today. I managed to ...