Warm and flat

 Next Swim: M-F 6am and 5pm; Sat & Sun, 7/8am and noon

Last Swim: Tuesday 6am

Air Temp: 62

Water Temp: 70ish ( per the Capt'n's toes)

Waves: flat

Clarity: very slight improvement. maybe a 2/10 or a 3/10

Kru: Lt MJ, Cindy, DragonflyRiffRaff, Lydia the Tatooed Lady, Capt'n, Magic Mike

As we were gathering in the lot at 6, the Wim Hoffers came up the path. All the world knows, that beach ain't big enough for the two of us. So with the coast clear, and at the proper time, we proceeded down. Three of the four Kru members who are swimming in GitchiGumee up in Bayfield this weekend were in attendance. So there was some talk of this weekend's swim, accommodations, logistics, schedules, etc. Then we told the Capt'n where Bayfield was. That man has to get up north more often!

This is the location of Bayfield. I did
a crappy job of explaining it this morning.

A nice sunrise and a warm, flat bay always make swimmers glad. Today was no exception. We skirted the leftover algae bloom on the shore and struck out into the slightly clearer, but still quite turbid waters. Four of us swam to Mudslide. Dragonfly and Lydia went further. It seems they were headed for Three Piers. 

Back on shore Capt'n relayed a story that the feature of the shoreline out beyond Three Piers that some refer to as Sandbags, isn't really sandbags, despite its appearance. Turns out he and Brick approached the shore there recently and found that those bags (or whatever they really are) are filled with concrete! Who knew?!?! I'm still callin' it Sandbags. That said, we also tossed around potential names for the new pile of rocks. They look different than other piles of riprap along the shore. They're darker, and look to be pretty randomly dropped there--although it appears they may just be staged there for future placement along the bluff where the tree massacre happened earlier in the season. In any case, someone mentioned that they looked like Dinosaur Dung. That phrase is now in direct competition with Itch's "Mt. Jackass." I am sure, as with many names this group adopts, time and consensus will determine which name sticks. 

Meantime, go jump in a lake.