Beautiful, but chilly, glad for the jacuzzi kinda day...

Someone Died Out At The A Buoy



It's Lobster Season...Be Safe




Pretty Kelp




The Great Pumpkin Riseth




A Plethora Of Perch (I think that's what they are)



Sunset At The Shores



A Shrimpy Stand-Off

spent a week writing on blogs, swim federation logs, cards, work comp position papers and other stuff.  Normally would not send you off to another site, but Tuesdays swim was freakishly fantastic...had a face off with a shrimp! 

To read about it, click here:

SharkBait Chronicles

Have missed you all tons and totally jealous of your fab swims...hope to sea you soon

Marta (sharkbait)

I ALMOST FORGOT! giant white sea bass!

SATURDAY! how could i not post this? swim report for saturday, dd, the mc's, ralph who is so the man, alexis, lftc swam in calm and pretty clear seas, cold at 62 but it felt so good after a week off. the wetsuited and finned sped off to the marine room, bill sped off to the ..maybe the pier? this time diana checked her course and came back to us, last time she follwed him and added a 1/2 mile to her swim.  near the marine room we turned back and so lucky were we! a giant white sea bass, maybe about 4' long, swimming shallowly and slowly, we were able to swim with him for several minutes until he dove for kelp, he was awesome and his little dark flippers were so adorable, i wanted to pet him.  poor claudia had to sit out and watch due to her nose surgery (totally cosmetic) but we were able to have a lovely lunch in old town (my new digs, very soon).  all in all an awesome swim with the best crew on the planet! powerful kismet has brought us together, the giant white sea bass is evidence that we are all meant to swim together! this is random but i maintain that this time we have at the cove is ours, we put our mark here and leave it for all of time, we are indelible. like sharpie ink..
lftc-out

sik! or is it sick?

swim report monday noon, lftc, loli and paul (paul sometimes swims with us, no wetsuit, no goggles guy) swam out in a lonely sea, not one other swimmer out and TOO BAD! why? i'll tell you, little curious ones: grey skies, some drizzle, cool weather and the too bad? total viz, that's why, awesome viz, viz to the nth degree, viz up the butt, sik viz! ( i told bill that i had to work on my street cred lingo, just ignore me when i do this) flatness and utter calm, smooth as silk seas, a little cold at 61 degrees but we rocked the swim to the 1/2, which has bobbed to who knows where, it's so off course these days.  we saw every living thing under the sea today, you could count the rocks, see the kelp swaying, gaze at the little fishies out in force. when we came in we had some bratty sea lions surrounding us and still not a swimmer in sight. TOO BAD! unlike some of my beloved swim pals, i won't say it was the best swim EVAR but it was pretty darn SIK! going to do it again tuesday, i'll be sure to post some bragging, um, i mean reports for your enjoyment.
lftc-out

Smooth, clear and calm... and a little grey

This weekend brought really calm, smooth-as-silk, water that was amazingly clear.  The water would have looked clearer had there been a little more light -- as in, where did all this fog and greyness come from?  Saturday was a great swim with LFTC, Diana, Ralph, Alexis and the MCs blitzing to the Marine Room.  We lost a few as we swam around looking for leopard sharks...LFTC, Diana and Ralph headed back. They spotted a giant white sea bass on their way to the cove.  We saw a couple of leopard sharks  at the Marine Room and lots of yellow tail (a personal fav) and then blazed back to the cove.

Sunday, Leonard was the only other brave sole that was willing to walk 3 miles to park in La Jolla on the CAF day. We did see Doug when we got back to the cove, but most regulars were staying away from the busy cove.  Still, we had a great swim, even clearer than Saturday, and glassy as pool  with no one in it... and there weren't many swimmers out either. Swam to the Marine Room again and saw lots of leopards and yellow fin (BIG ones!).  Great fun! The water temp both days was from 62 to 65ish... nice!

Hope to see more of you next weekend!
~mer-cari

Thank you Talya!

Talya and Lenya(?) baptized me in the bioluminescence tonight. It was the blue light special in the cove at dark. We started for the half at 6:00 under heavy marine layer. Red tide was thick to the Q, then cleared to the half. Water temp was a cheeky 61 degrees (below my official wetsuit threashold temp). But I was unprepared and swam in a rash guard instead. Which made for a quicky swim. Too quick to experience the full impact of the glowing red tide, according to Talya. So we retreated to the hot tub for 10 minutes, then went back out! By that time it was much darker, and the blue glow was brilliant. Wow. Thanks, Talya, for insisting that we make the best of this evening!

we want to swim with yous and we wanted to swim with thems guys (texting while driving)

swim report for our beloved and deeply missed cami and everyone else, (also deeply missed)sunday, noon: lftc, dd (the yous) the mc's and leonard (the thems guys) head out in mostly cloudy weather but not too cold and mostly cloudy seas but not too red and juicy. we were all so happy to be in regular zero viz murk and not the deep red v-8 juice of late. oh how the mighty have fallen! gone are the days of wishing for viz, sun, warm water and flatness. we have been reduced to being thrilled to swim in non infectious seas, period. we had a cool rythym, like floating on a pool floatie with lots of people playing and doing canon balls, up and down rolling and side to side rolling. it was awesome fun although we split up immediately with bill headed off into somewhere and dd following suit. leonard and i stuck together and cary was blazing to the marine room as planned. cary is so good! she's just good. we hung out with some leopards for a few minutes then head straight back where once again we split off. more rock and roll, 65 degrees, lots of kayaks, very few swimmers but some of us are way more hardcore than others. (not me, i just went because diana said we were going and she's a rarity, like the turtle) our hottie lifeguards teased us about their anti red tide dance which was going to be spectacular, they were busy guarding us so no dance, darn. we hung out in the jacuzzi, made alcohol related plans and said good bye, until we swim again! oh, for those of you who want to swim weekdays with bill at ohmygod 6am, give him a call. be sure to let me know how that goes.
miss all of yous that couldn't make it today, you are running out of excuses so you better get on it and get in.