I like the beaches and Pier in Oceanside, CA. I like to be out past the breakers year-round when my abilities permit.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Still Going
I have doubles up on some of these photos above. Oh, well. I don't want to mess with them to try to eliminate the double. Swim after work-Friday night. 25 minute swim with fins around the pier. A visible current moving south to north tonight-the reverse of customary. Cold water. Trunks and swim cap. Low tide, pretty flat out there. Small waves for the surfers inside-not many surfers-about 2 dozen.
I needed help from a few surfers coming in through their stretched out line so that I could find a hole to slip through to get to shore. No cooperation tonight. A couple of them didn't want to move a few feet to help this cold swimmer. I thought about getting mad and yelling, "How about getting out of the ****ing way!" But they probably think I have some perfect vision of them and their positions in the water, and I'm the one not moving a bit to cooperate with them. For the record to surfers-a swimmer can't see sh** swimming through the water with waves, swells, and chop--not to mention foggy goggles and a swimmer lying flat on the surface of the water has no view. So there! Now I feel better.
It is supposed to rain this weekend so there may not be swimming. We'll see. At least I'm covered for now--I got in with my trunks again and did the pier thing. Haven't cracked yet. Still warming up after a hot shower at home.
"The first time you quit is the last time you try."
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