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When placed face-down in a pool of water (only do this with your infant if you are very brave and willing to risk the wrath of your spouse), babies will hold their breath and paddle and kick boards in a swimming motion. Stephanie, Tom and I will be in Santa Cruz next Saturday to swim around the Muni Pier for the Will Swim For Food fundraiser. Heidi 1, Phil, Tom, Stephanie and her friend Heidi 2 from Santa Barbara, Tim, Dave, Teresa, John and Jonny. John Lindsey’s forecast predicted strong to gale force offshore winds developing late Saturday and continuing through Sunday. Tom and I did the full Monte, somehow getting 3765M instead of the 3920M for the same route on Sunday. This route was just over a mile. This was probably about a mile. They swam out to a ship anchored about 1/2 mile ? After seeing the first few I got apprehensive because I remembered Rob’s story of having swam here and having a solid carpet of jelly fish only 6 feet below him, seemingly just out of reach.

This line took us over the stretch of rocky bottom that is dense with kelp in the summer but this time of the year we just had to do a bit of weaving around the few remaining strands. What a difference a few degrees and sunshine makes! The second lap was the toughest mentally, because I to distract myself from thinking about how far I had to still swim. Leslie got cold and dropped off halfway around the second lap. Tom wanted to do the route that I had done Sunday for 3920M. That plan got a little shaky as we waded in and found the water temperature to be a couple of clicks colder than it was on Sunday, so we planned to drop off the full plan if it was too cold. The sky was grey, water was flat and the water temperature was back up to 15°C/59°F after falling to 56 – 57 on Thursday. Then had water breaking over my head from behind. The current and chop was on the right on this leg but coming at more of an angle towards my head. One of those discoveries includes the radiodont Cambroraster falcatus, so named because its head carapace is similar in shape to the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars.

Theresa and I had a wonderful long swim today that was marred by one absolutely disgusting event. Swimming today were David, Niel, Theresa and Leslie. Swimming today were NIel. My watch read 52F in the water today. Cellular) with Apple Watch Magnetic Charging Cable (Models A2255 and A2256) and Apple 5W USB Power Adapter (Model A1385); each Apple Watch paired with an iPhone, all devices tested with prerelease software. Where Coaches feel a Swimmer is not acting in accordance with the Club Code of Conduct, they will have the right to exclude the Swimmer for a specified period. They said there probably wasn’t much they can do after the fact, but they would go out there and have a discussion with him, if only to inform him that it is FREE to dump your tank there.. After weeks of ‘overcast and calm waters’ the conditions were much different this morning. Tom and I are thinking alike and can make a morning time work so there are two to four of us in the water. Swimming at 7:30 this morning were Duke, Brittany and Niel. Brittany headed in. The rest of us continued on to the last buoy at the creek, then swam to the end of the Avila pier and came in along the pier.

In this image the water appears to be brown from silt out past the end of the Cal Poly Pier which means the whole area where we usually swim should be avoided until the water clears up. Niel, Duke, Sam and Katie swam over to the Poly Pier, to the end of the Avila Pier, then to where the buoy line would end on the east side if the buoys were out, and returned to the pier. I swam east somewhat against the chop along the buoy line. Following what now accounts for a major storm in SLO County, Sunday at Avila cleaned up to be an extraordinary day – deep blue skies with the scattered remaining storm clouds off to the east and west, crispy clear clear air with amazing visibility in every direction, including in the water. Raj Verma, SingleStore’s CEO, said in an interview that its cloud revenues have grown by 150% year over year and now account for some 40% of all revenues (up from 10% a year ago).