Dos Locos Does it yet again...

Despite yesterday's outstanding swim conditions The Patriarch and I were cautiously optimistic about the prospects of being able to swim today. The lake temp websites both indicated that icy cold water had moved in from the north. Determined to continue our streak of swim adventures into October we came prepared with our wetsuits just in case.

As we strolled down to the Klode beach this morning the skies were grey and the wind was blowing steadily from the northeast at 10-15mph. The result was a steady dose of 1-4ft waves. Certainly the conditions were nothing we hadn't swam in before...the only question that remained would be could we tolerate the water temperature.

Surprisingly, as we dipped our toes in the water we did not experience the jolt of icy cold rejection that we were preparing ourselves for. Yes, the water was noticeably colder than yesterday...perhaps somewhere in the low 60's...but now instead of setting our sights on just getting a swim in our minds began to debate the prospects of logging a swim without wetsuits.

Sarcastically I half mused to The Patriarch...'Golly gee, you'd have to be nuts to swim today without a wetsuit...' And that's when it happened. With a half crazed look in one eye and bit of a nervous twitch in the other The Patriarch almost instantaneously replied...'Why that we are!!'

....and at that we were off...leaving our wetsuits behind we cautiously entered the water remembering all to well our prior adventure where the Lady of the Lake knocked us both on our asses as we carelessly plunged into water. The water out to the second and what appears to be an up and coming third sand bar was dark with sand. Just beyond though, the clear blue water could be seen. Encouraging us to press on the sun began to break through the clouds as if to give us the approval to proceed.

Swimming from north beach we had to swim hard just to reach the garage. The waves were rolling and fun but the swift current and rolling seas from the northeast made you earn every inch of progress forward! The cold water was a bit numbing on the feet, fingers and face but at this point nothing was going to deter Dos Locos from this rare opportunity to log a no wetsuit swim...especially with the calendar reading September 28th. The trip up to the garage took nearly 10 minutes. The trip back took a little less then 3.

Tomorrow we plan to do it again. 6:30am at Klode...and perhaps at 4:30 if the conditions in the morning don't allow us to swim. Just 3 more days until October 1st....we can do it! :)

-Capt'n