The Swim That Wasn't....

Huddled together in the West Neck Beach parking lot, a chilly and disconsolate group of seven would-be early morning swimmers contemplated the wildly rocking sailboats and madly fluttering flag before conceding that swimming in the maelstrom created by a rip-roaring northwesterly wind would be crazy!

After e-mailing a “heads-up” to the 7:30 crowd, we (Carole, Gae, Evelyn, the-other-Ken, two AquaFit guys and I) went our separate ways. Carole and I consoled ourselves with bagels and coffee at the marina at Huntington Harbor, which we found to be virtually windless and unruffled.

Curious to know if our early mass-exodus from the parking lot was a case of “premature evacuation,” we headed back to West Neck Beach, where we found three more Pod-ites – stubborn remnants of the 7:30 crop who had to “see for themselves.” One look at the still-dancing sailboats was all it took to convince Sue, Kaitlyn and Joye that tomorrow might be a better day to swim....And so we will! The consensus seems to be for a somewhat later start, so there’s a group swimming at 7:00 – See you in the Salt!