100!

Beach: Klode
Water temp: 53
Air Temp: 47
Waves: 5-7ft!
Current: strong from the south
Water Clarity: Stirred up
Crew: Gabriel, Capt'n

Wow....the Lady of the Lake really knows how to throw a party! Being that this was our 100th swim day of the year it seemed fitting. A strong east wind made for some frequent and very sizable waves. Wave sizes ranged continuously between 5-7ft and their frequency was every 3-4 seconds. ...perhaps almost as big as the ones we encountered several weeks ago but a lot more of them.

This was probably our toughest swim of the year. The playful seas and strong current made you all but forget about the cool water temp and even cooler air temp. Our 200m swim from Klode's south beach to south-south beach took a little more than 10 minutes. The return trip took only 3. Not quite partied out yet we continued on up past the north beach down spout before turning around.

The return trip was quite entertaining. Upon reaching the southeast beach rock pile I noticed that Gabriel was swimming but not going anywhere. A very amusing sight if you've never seen it. Gabriel had found the sweet spot where the currents moving to and from shore are at a stalemate. The only way out of this spot is either to swim into shore or out from shore. After a little deliberation and a valiant attempt to out muscle the stalemate we both decided to call it a day and swam ashore.

As The Patriarch has yet to declare the official end of the 2009 Klode Swim season we plan to swim again at 4:30pm on Thursday. Any takers? Gumdrop? Brad? :)