An Undisputably Official Skin Swim

 Probable next swims:

Mon - Fri 6 am and afternoons at 5pm

Sat/Sun 8am and noon

Last Swim: Friday 6am, , and evening swims, people are saying

Water Temp: 65 per mitchometer, cooler near the rocks

Air Temp: 70 and sunny

Clarity: pretty nice

Waves: Mostly flat, tiny swell out of the south + southerly current offshore

Kru: Diablo and Mr. Anonymous (early shift), Linda the Lamprey, Lydia the Tattooed Lady, Lieutenant MJ, Mermaid Princess, Laguna Mike, Magic Mike, Mr. Bubble, Dragonfly

Shore support:  Two teenage girls (Q: "How's the water? A: "It was warm when we got out.  It's nice in the sun.")

Any kind of officiousness seems like an un-Kru-like anti-virtue, but I challenge anyone to defy the skin-like nature of today's swim! 9 stalwarts showed lots of skin as well as varying wetsuit coverage ranging from sleeveless wetsuits to sleeves alone, with swims of impressive distance and duration.

How will I ever keep track of who wore what for the blog, I thought?  I tossed anxiety out the window by resolving to track none of it.  

I myself opted for total skin and felt cold sans gloves and booties.  However I must be acclimatizing as I swam 400 yards further than yesterday.  Was cruising with MJ and Lydia, ready to turn back at 600 but they kept going so I thought, I can do another hundred, against my better judgement!  Turned at 700 as they swam on. 
Fired the up jets on the way back, which somewhat compensated in generating body heat or at least provided some distraction. Active mental game to assure myself I was not really that cold.

Though it seemed like a long swim, I was one of the first back to shore.  Several of us compared afterdrop notes as well as notes on virtual conferences we had attended in the past week.  Others chimed in on this rich vein as they emerged from the water.  I complained about how there were NO SCHEDULED BREAKS and since we are all used to watching videos, there was no timeline at the bottom of the screen to show how long the interesting people were going to talk, thus  it was hard to time necessary bio breaks.  Others complained about how some people just needed to STOP TALKING, especially after NINE HOURS OF TALKING.

A UFO (unidentified floating object) of almost swimmer-like proportions slowly made its way south, maybe 4 or 500 yards offshore.  "I  kind of want to swim out to it, see what it is," Magic Mike commented.

There remained much to discuss as we departed the parking lot with hopeful thoughts about a long summer ahead.