An escorted buoy swim from ATW this Saturday (8/13) at 8am

You can't really see the buoy in this picture:)

 

Look out there. See that? That's the buoy. The UWM buoy that gives us all our temperature and wave information (and chlorophyll fluorescence and turbidity and incident solar radiation). Isn't it about time you went out and gave it a closer inspection, perhaps even waved at the camera in person? Now's your chance. 

Dan DeWeerdt has organized a swim out to that buoy. Joe Wilson, the coach for the summer swim program at the Fox Point pool, will provide a boat escort. This will keep us visible to any other boat traffic. You will provide your equipment and sense of adventure. Many times, on our June shipwreck swim, some consider taking the further swim out to the buoy. This year nobody did so. But here's another chance. 

Gather at 8:00 am at Atwater Beach on Saturday, August 13 and we'll evaluate the conditions, suit up, and strike out for the 2K swim out to the buoy. That makes the round trip approximately 2.4 miles. Sounds like a distance triathletes and Bayfield swimmers can easily conquer. 

Hope to see you there!