Last Swim/Dip: 7:30 a.m. Friday, March 15
Next Swims: Saturday and Sunday noon (noon defined loosely)
Water temp: 42 per TTL's new thermometer with the really long line
Air temp: 37 and sunny
Kru: Lydia the Tattooed Lady, Fin-Fyn, Dragonfly
Waves: Pretty significant shore surf - lots o' surfers at Bradford beach. Maybe 3-4 feet? Looked corrugated from the bluff side
Surf Captain (aka Lt. MJ's Boyfriend) called it - rough. Not conducive to swimming. Kudos to TTL for "conducive," vocab word of the day.
We set up at the North wall. TTL claimed to have no experience with dipping or plunging, since she is always swimming.
"It's pretty freeform," I said.
She expressed skepticism.
"I make sure my feet leave the bottom, as that's the difference between swimming and standing on shore," I explained. With this minimal instruction, she went for it, and the 3 of us frolicked in the waves. It is always an amazing feeling, to be lifted up by a really large wave - a moment of anti-gravity. Waves were big enough to be intimidating.
I was first to head to shore, as the strong undertow seemed like an invitation to making poor choices. We agreed it was good to make mildly poor choices, and take somewhat controlled risks.
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For those who give a S#%* about the water they swim in, there's a great opportunity to prove it! Tomorrow, April 20 from 9-12, Milwaukee Riverkeeper is hosting the annual River Cleanup. Online registration is now closed, but there are 65 sites within the Milwaukee River drainage basin to show up and pitch in! Free T-shirt...maybe, Sense of self-efficacy in the face of global environmental catastrophe...absolutely.
More good news! If you didn't have the opportunity to participate yesterday, you can still pitch in and fill a bag or two. They usually don't collect the bags of trash along the river routes until Monday morning, so there's still time. In addition to keeping refuse out of the waterways, you can learn a lot about the terrain and the creatures that inhabit it. Interesting finds yesterday include: a geocache and a snapping turtle skeleton.
Also of note...the Atwater buoy is in and reporting!
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