Synch or Swim!

Next Swims:
Wed. thru Thursday - 6am & 6pm, Friday 6 am and 5:30 pm
Saturday/Sunday  @ Noon

Last Swim:
Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 6 pm
Water Temp:  Toe test, low 50's, Atwater Buoy 54
Waves: Pretty flat 
Clarity:  Not very, 5 or 6 out of 10.  
Kru:  Linda the Lamprey, Synchro, Kahuna, Willadawonderdog.

Syncho & Lamprey, just before they commence their dramatic synchronized swim routine.

So I arrive, and almost don't recognize Synchro, all dolled up!  When's the last time a Kru member showed up at the beach with hair done and makeup?  This is Synchro's public education program to explain to the Kru the beauty and athleticism of Synchronized Swimming!  But where's the Kru?  It's just Synchro, Kahuna and Willadawonderdog at the flag pole.  Where's Itch?  Where's Patriarch?  Where's everybody else?  Oh well, fi I say, you all missed it.  We go down and see the indomitable Linda the Lamprey swimming skin, finishing off a long swim.  Linda & Synchro proceed to give a magnificent, improvised olympic-caliber synchronized swim exhibition.  

Or that's the story I'm sticking to.  Rather than the story about Sychro managing to get a very excited Willa running to play with her in the water -- a poor puppy, who is oblivious to the fact that there is a drop off, and who doesn't really know how to swim. Oopps.  Oh well, puppy recovers quickly, scampers out back onto shore, and refuses to go anywhere near the devil lake the rest of the evening.  Don't worry, Synchro, I'm sure you were not INTENTIONALLY TRYING TO KILL A PUPPY, and I'm sure after many years of therapy Willa may some day be able to look at water again without going into full PTSD flashback.  

I'm telling ya, if ya don't go to the Lake, ya just never know what you might miss seeing.     

Sequins, sequins, look at my sequins.

The hair is shellacked, and will not move, no matter how long I stand on my head underwater and twittle my feet above the lake.