Last swim: 6 a.m. Wednesday
Next swims: Weekdays 6 a.m., Saturday/Sunday 8 a.m. and noon
Air: High 70s, humid, mist
Water temp: 55.... yes, that's right. Reportedly warmer north of the rocks
Waves: A little bounce from SE
Clarity: bleh
Kru: Showgirl, Lydia the Tattooed Lady, Lt. MJ, Hurricane Swimdy, Fin-Fyn, Faux Canadian, A La Mode, Drangonfly
Shore & lake support: Wim Hofers, SUPers
"@#$!, You guys!"
TTL shrieked before even putting in the thermometer.
She pulled it out at 55, it was still going down.
TTL rushing to take the temperature from a different spot, hoping for a better outcome.
People kept drifting down to the beach and exclaiming, "but the Buoy said 69!"
Our Lady of Lake Michigan dearly loves a good joke, and one of her favorites is to suddenly and randomly make the weather buoy look like a liar and an asshole.
We often muse in our heads, on the way down to the water, how far a swim we're going to feel like doing. 1,000? 2,000? Today, all those plans were swiftly brought to naught.
Those of us who were skin waded in, splashed around a bit. Except for Fin-Fyn, who heroically set out around the rocks and promptly disappeared from view. For a minute we thought she might be missing again! Would we have to go back in the water to rescue her? No, fortunately she reappeared before we could even really speculate, having swum a fairly epic 500 yards.
Lt. MJ and TTL had the foresight to bring (and wear) wetsuits and swam the longest. Lt. MJ came up with a smile, but TTL emerged with a purple brow and scowl that had apparently frozen.
"This is NOT what I came back for," she said, referencing a recent trip to Minneapolis...a grueling ordeal of a trip.
It was freezing, it was stinky, but--some compensation--at least it was beautiful.
1 comment:
"Warmer north of the rocks" = maybe a few degrees or "I think I may be getting used to this" " (not) I finally got warm around 2PM.
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