SwimOutlet.com

If you need swim gear, SwimOutlet.com is a great on-line business for purchasing. I have used them a few times and have been very satisfied. I just wish I had more extra money to buy more neat items from them.

Top Gun Showing Oceanside Amphitheater at the Pier

So, I hear for the 25th anniversary of the film "Top Gun," the city is showing the film to the public outdoors at the beach amphitheater. I went down for a swim before sunset and took a few pictures of the area before people started arriving.

My swim was from north to south; it was difficult to determine which direction the current was running outside. Inside the inner break, the water was running south, so I went that way. It was rough and choppy, and the swim around the pier gave me a good workout. I lost another pair of goggles coming in through big waves throwing me around. I think that next swim I'll try my Duck Feet fins instead of my trusty Churchills. The Churchills will be breaking any day now. That first picture of the old, blue house is the house where a scene from "Top Gun" was filmed. They are planning to move it to a different location intact eventually.

Memorial Day Weekend Begins at Oceanside Pier

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/oceanside/article_107b92f2-5aa5-57c4-97c1-2301e9cb4c8f.html

The pier was busy Friday afternoon with beachgoers flocking to the pier for a head start on the weekend. But wait, "Why does everybody have to bring their ugly dogs with them to the beach?"

There were so many dogs on the strand and the sidewalks, and the rude people who have to bring their dogs on the sand (NOT ALLOWED) that I was ready to - well... nothing - but I didn't like it.

Keep your dogs at home please.

The water was very rough out past the breakers and my swim was a butt kicker. Rough chop made it hard to breathe without swallowing water.

Oceanside CA Pier Swim

No pictures today but I swam around the pier after work today. No wet suit needed. I did wear the fins. A nice, relaxing swim in pretty clean green/blue water out past the breakers. Surf was good, about 3-4 feet, good shape. About two dozen surfers stretched out along the pier area, north and south. Plenty of room to find a wave today. More beachgoers than usual this afternoon. I suppose people are gearing up for the Memorial Day weekend.

Camp Pendleton Swimmer Feared Drowned Update

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/may/20/sailor-feared-drowned-search-now-recovery-effort/

I found this update and identity of the sailor who apparently drowned last Thursday afternoon while swimming on base. He was a Navy Corpsman.