Back to the Water!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Today, Tuesday, was wicked. Janie and RUTH! ploughed rather badly through a big set getting into the water, everyone else having gone merrily through. It took maybe 10 minutes for us to get out. But we did it. Trekked out to the A and B in huge swells and alot of chop. It almost looked like the waves were breaking at the quarter - the swells had tiny crests as they swept up the 1/4 for a ride.

So we headed in from the B - waves and current (?) pulling towards the caves. Stayed outside the break for maybe 7 - 10 minutes minutes waiting for a set to finish. Janie thought we may be okay but then we looked again and saw a huger wave and another set heading in. I admit I was wondering if I was going to get into the Cove unaided. We looked hopefully toward the Cove to see if anyone was signaling us (they were) but we couldn't see them. I saw someone waving a white towel on the beach - don't know what that would have meant! but it was just a tourist. Janie called it finally and we headed in. Once the set was over getting in was pretty easy for me. Janie was very knackered but plugged mightily.

Thank you for the right call, Janie!! Thank you Mother O for the break in the surf!

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Sunday, Leonard, being the mensch that he is, went back in the water with me for 25 minutes after swimming around for 1 - 1 1/2 hours already, so that I wouldn't have to swim alone!!!! The wind was ripping - blowing out to sea. A first for me. Water cold but felt great and the company was awesome. The sun came out as we exited. But it was cold cold cold.

Then, over on the lawn, a parrot rescue group - Amazon Parrot Rescue, had a gizmo set up to show their parrots. Spectacularly beautiful creatures with 2' tails.

The only water I've seen over the last week was from the train or pouring rain. Blue and beautiful oceans traveling north to San Luis Obispo, great surf. On the way back to SD oceans were all brown and junky. Great sunsets and rainbows. Oh, and lot's of wine tasting! Hope to join you all in the water this weekend.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Sweet, Near Spring Swim

Well, the not-so-mighty C's bailed-out on Sunday's first day of Spring swim. We headed to the cove from Torrey Pines and it just looked cold-drizzly-dreary, especially compared to our fun roller day on Saturday. The C's sadly faded back to Poway, leaving our dear Ruth with no pod-nicks to swim with... only the fabulous memories of SATURDAY!

But Saturday was awesome -- Ruth and the mighty's C's braved the decent surf (there were body surfers) and super-moon low tides for a rockin' and rollin' swim out to the A, then Marine Room, up to the 1/4 to see how Leprechaun Bill had dressed the buoy for St. Patrick's Day -- wearing the green, now! Then Ruth was having sooooo much fun in swimming up hill, we swam back to the A and then in, having some excellent big surf training with our Bill -- Laura would be proud! Surf wass up -- great swim, water temps slowly warming to the spring side (felt like 57ish). Even had a nice deck visit from Cami and the boys! All-in-all, a happy, near spring experience.

Ruth posed with Leprechaun Bill -- we took the photo with Ruth's iPhone, so please post... The red hair and beard were quite striking...

Cove looked bleak when we got there at 11 AM and then... it then turned all gorgeous on us!

Here's what the Saturday cove looked like when we got out -- so beautiful.

Beautiful La Jolla Cove Spring Day, March 19, 2011

Sunday, March 13, 2011

birthday splash!

Thanks to all my beloved swim pals for getting it together enough to get together for the birthday swimmers! The swim was excellent and filled with dolphins putting on a big show for the birthday boy and girl. Everyone was on their game today, not a straggler in the bunch and we had a paddler today! Grady, who will now be required at all the group swims. we are becoming very spoiled: we need dolphins, partners, crabs, tea, cake, coffee and now a paddler!
Thanks to Grady for coming out with us today, it was great to have you! the food was intense today, the guards were lucky to be on duty..
you all are the absolute best group, the best partners a person could wish for and i don't even know how i found you! i do know it was in, on or around the water, what followed was/is good luck.
be happy and swim on and on and on!
lftc-out

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Warm seas now a sweet memory...

Missed you all! Thanks to our blog we can feel a bit like we've kept up with our swim-peeps. Sounds like things in the water have been nice here too, though a tad colder.

We had warm, clear water in the Turks and Caicos. It was unbelievably gorgeous and the highlight was jumping into the water with some humpback whales (3) that were swimming through the Grand Turk channel. We were 10 feet from them (mom, baby and male) and they were just checkin' us out! We were stunned... nothing could top that, though the scuba diving was great, saw tons of colorful fish -- even some that don't belong there like lion fish... what a treat.

I have to say, except for missing our swim-buds, we just didn't EVER want to leave -- wished we could've imported you there directly -- beam them over, Scotty or something nice like that.

Here are a few pics to inspire. Ruth calls is swim porn, and I'm guessing LFTC will like that turn of phrase!

We missed you, but did our best to soldier on in crystalline aquamarine blue, beyond-turquoise-blue warm waters!