The sandman had his claws in me pretty deep this morning, so I didn’t make it out to Ladder #1 until about 5:30am (I know…slacker!). Chris was already out there taking pictures of the cloud-muted sunrise. Since Chris was just getting over the flu, Dave and I did the trek to Oak Street Beach while Chris joined in a bit later.
There was a slight chop to the water, and we had to swim into a mild current on the way back to L1. But the water temperature was quite tolerable at a surprisingly balmy 60F.
After the swim we all horsed around in the “pool” area just off of L1 and good-naturedly heckled the packs of runners out on the path (go CES!). By then the drizzle had intensified – something which is completely irrelevant to us but absolutely agonizing to the runners. And, Jesse, a new arrival at L1, showed up around that time and did a 1/4 mile swim sans wetsuit. So there are no excuses for not coming out!
P.S. We found a beach ball and an aerobie frisbee during our swim out to Oak Street Beach. If you happen to have lost one of these out there, you need not be concerned. We will take very good care of these items and get many years of enjoyment out of them.
Dave pre-swim
I could kick myself for not coming now! My forecast said thunderstorms and I didn’t wanna risk the drive from Naperville in case of lightning. Bummer!
Rain’s usually good cos it smooths the water out…….