Captn's Log, Stardate, Wed., May 31st, 6 am (Chief Engineer Kahuna "Scotty" Pendleton Reporting)
Water Temp: 62ish
Air: Bright Sunshine, low mid 60's with calm winds
Waves: Flat
Clarity: OK
Kru: Dragonfly, Showgirl, Lt. MJ, TTL, Kahuna, a WH and a mystery swimmer.
Next Swims: Weekdays, 6 am and 6 pm; weekends each day at noon. All swims at Klode (check blog for occastional daily variations as to times and locations).
Twas a beautiful day at the beach this morning. Note the standard summer morning swim start time is now 6 am (not 6:30 as it was last week).
How wonderful it will be when we get the Klode Kru Beachclub & Cabana constructed, and we can watch the sunrise from the deck, or look out at the sunshine shimmering on the water from the hot tub tiki bar, as our dedicated staff rake and otherwise groom our beach for us. Photos of the architect and the contractor discussing plans and the 3-D renderings of the Beachclub & Cabana are in the below post.
We swam today from North Beach as the slightly dead fish smell from the accumulated dead gobies on the South Beach has not completely dissipated yet.
Speaking of stinky stuff: kudos, glory, praise and honor to Diablo. Last Saturday, like the rest of us, he noticed the stiff and rotting raccoon south of South Beach that was stinking to high heaven. The rest of us just grumbled and said somebody ought to do something about that. Diablo--Man God that he is--reached into his backpack and miraculously pulled out a shovel, and then went over, dug a hole, coaxed the carcass of the raccoon into the hole with a stick, and gave Mr. Racoon a suitable burial. Beach cleanliness award above and beyond the call of duty. (I guess you have a lot of room in your swim bag for shovels, if you don't bring down a full wet suit and a lot of other gear that mere mortals believe they have to bring with them to swim in coolish water.) Thanks Diablo!
But enough about stinky stuff. (I don’t want to scare off folks by the above who might imagine Lake Michigan Swimming is somehow a never ending horror of unpleasant sights and smells.)
The water is fabulous. The early morning and evening conditions are excellent, and should not be missed. Summer is short, life is short. Get your swims in while you can.
Preview of things to come:
- Friday, June 2, Birthday of Lake Michigan Swimmer, Olympian and Definitive Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller.
Jungle and swimming good for boy
Tarzan certainly knew how to start a day. At the start of the second Johnny WWeissmuller Tarzan movie, Tarzan goes for a vigorous morning swim, then climbs back into his tree house, and practices his newly-expanded English vocabulary, with the lovely-and-alluring Jane:
Tarzan: Good morning, I love you.
Jane: Good morning, I love you. You never forget, do you, Tarzan?
Tarzan: Never forget... I love you.
Jane: Love who?
Tarzan: Love you.
Jane: Love who?
Tarzan: Love Jane.
Jane: Love... my...
Tarzan: Love ... my... wife. My wife!
(The above bit of stilted dialogue was required by the censors, after they saw mostly-naked Tarzan and Jane exchanging sweet nothings on their jungle master bed, so as to establish that somehow between the first and second movie, Jane and Tarzan got properly hitched.)
- Saturday, June 10, (10 am) Atwater Park & Beach, Shipwreck Pirate Swim, Followed by Beer and BBQ at the SMC Chx/Rib BBQ Picnic/Fundraiser. (Kahuna is selling tixs.)
15 comments:
It was discussed at ‘the end of last season’ (whatever that means) to adjust the evening swims back to a time a la pre-covid since it was adjust earlier due to so many not working, furloughed, different hours, etc etc. I don’t know how many evening swimmers like me work til 5 but judging by evening attendance in the 13 years pre-covid, I am not the only one. Wanna make it 5:30? Or even back to 6 and adjust back with daylight later in the season? Anyone? Beuller?
I think yea. Past is prologue.
5:30 is fine by me. But isn't the evening swim really Itch's call/show? I just think we should post a "default" schedule, to make life easy for the Kru-curious.
I think more people will show up at the latter time. I'm reading now also that Tri Wi no longer has an open water swim for the summer and suspect some may want to join. My guess is more people would be able to make 6:00 after work.
Itch, what say you?
If the belief that changing the swim to 6 will get more suits in the lake then by all means.
I'll still be doing 5 so longer swims are possible, boom boom, everybody happy!!
IF Itch gets in at 5, then 1) we will not be privvy to his consistent water temp measurements. Not that he is the only one with a thermometer, but his reports are steady and reliable and I have gauged everything I know about water temps off of his readings. On the other hand, 2) we don't have to figure out those god-forsaken hand signals: half-asl, half-semaphore...i'm only ever guessing what they mean.
On a completely different topic...I am far from the most orthodox christian person in the world, but I got just enough Jesuit education to worry about calling a guy Diablo in one breath, and in virtually the same breath calling him Man-god. That seems like double-blasphemy. Amiright?
I hereby swear to scribe the water temp on the sand .......as soon as I come up with a system as eloquent and logical as my hand signals that are actually god approved and rather charming, as told to me by many happy beach goers who rely on succinct temp readings for their safety and the safety of their families.
Doing gods work. Pip pip.
So what should we post on the blog for the un-initiated, so they know when the typical evening swim starts? 5:00? (And then if the initiated want to swim later at 5:30 or 6:00, so be it.)
And as to Magic Mike's theological musings, how does that song go, something like, "if loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right"? That kind of sums up the way I feel about Diablo's name, and his stellar efforts to keep our beach clean. Let's face it "Diablo" is one of the coolest beach names any of us have. But if Mike's worried about us getting smote for blasphemy, and if folks want to start referring to "he-who-must-not-be-called-Diablo" by some other name, I'm down with that too. HWMNBCD, for short? Or "Man God," or "The Angel Garbriel"? (Gabriel, after all, is his real first name, and it kind of fits).
Erin and I will be doing 6 (tonight), as the original time was, and most 9 to fivers can more easily make. As for the early birds they can make the early shift. And as for the leisurely lifers and self employed, well they have options. Hail Odin.
6, to keep things simple and streamlined.
OK. Keep it simple for now. Six and six it is. I've updated my previous post to reflect that new schedule. I plan to swim at 6 pm on Friday, June 2nd (Johnny Weissmuller's birthday), so I can raise toast to one of the greatest American swimmers ever. Hope to see you there.
I’m floored: resolution?! Praise due Allah
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