Mon-Fri 6:15 am and 5pm
Saturday, Sunday 8 am and Noon
Last Swim: Saturday at Noon
Water Temp: Dr. Panini called it 48, averaging macho-meter, mitch-o-meter and duck-o-meter readings
Air Temp: 78
Clarity: plenty of junk inside the rocks but could see bottom outside
Waves: gently 8 - 10" swells, northbound current
Kru: Mr. Bubble, Mr. Anonymous, the Other Dave, Moondaug, Super Hera, We'Taco, Dr. Panini, Sunny and Mr. Laguna, Rosie, Abby, Courtney, Eleanor & Ryan, Itch, Brick, Sandy, Capt'n, Magic Mike, Kim G.
This has got to be unprecedented turnout for a day when the water wasn't that warm. My only speculative explanation is that perhaps some of today's swimmers actually believed my last blog post, saying that Autmun 2020 has been cancelled for the remainder of the year. Easy to believe that when we have such warm sunny weather - the lake doesn't seem to be buying it though. At least not today.
Patriarch and Capt'n have told me that, in the old days, they wouldn't even consider swimming in water colder than 60.
Capt'n poured the Pitsch and asked for a toast; Sweet Jesus! was Itch's response. Very apropos as we were taking the Killepitsch Kommunion. OMG! would be another way of saying how most of us felt. Stated yet another way - Jesus is Just Alright, per the Doobie Brothers in 1970
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
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Myself, Linda the Lamprey, Jenny Thorpedo, Fred, Blake, and Handyman Hank were at the 8 am swim. No thermometers - toes said "cold". Rolling gentle waves from the South. Linda and Fred swam full skin. Linda's assessment of the temperature was that although her fingers felt like "pins and needles" they didn't feel like she was "getting stabbed under her fingernails" so 50-52. We'll go with the 48 from the noon swim to make us all feel better about our shortish swims. Blake swam in a sleeveless shorty - made it to Love Rock and back and rode his bike home in his wet clothes. He wins the bada$$ award.
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