Cool, clear air. Cool, clear (sort of) water.

Next swims: M-F 6am and 5pm; Sat & Sun 8am and noon

Last swim: Sun 8am
Air temp: Upper 60s/Low 70s
Water temp: 63
Waves: Building, well-organized waves 1'-2' in height; long, uniform interval
Clarity: looked like someone emptied a shredder in the cove: 2/10; once past the north rock pile, clarity vastly improved: 9/10 

Kru: Showgirl and another swimmer early, Cindy, Lt. MJ, Sheila, LunaL, Moondaug, Michelle, Mary Joy, Jill, Ben(?), Magic Mike. 

 I love how the seasons give us time, if we are paying attention, to process their transition. Nobody would call today anything other than a beautiful summer day. But it was a little cooler, and there was a clarity to the air (and the water) that reminds us that autumn follows summer. Last week there were some pretty strong fluctuations in the water temperature. This morning, besides a few cooler spots, the water consistently in the mid 60s. Pretty comfortable.

The Kru swam north toward different destinations and at different paces. But, interestingly, we all arrived back at essentially the same time. On our way out a few swimmers stopped to chat near birches. I pointed out a new feature of the tree line near birches, that I first noticed a couple of weeks ago. When you are just a few feet past birches, for a short period of time, if you look up high into the trees, a hole in the tree line appears, roughly in the shape of a heart. A few strokes later, it is gone.  I call it heart hole, a dumb name. Maybe you'll have a better one. But you have to notice it first. Am I the only one to have noticed this?

I imagine the noon swimmers are gathering after their swim as I post this. 

Keep swimming!