No icy fingers reached up to grab our unsuspecting ankles and drag us soundlessly down to Davy Jones' locker... no bloated corpses leered up at us from the murky depths below...no sea monsters from the deep swallowed us whole...and we were not churned to mincemeat by the outboard motors of a deranged boat captain bent on mayhem....In fact, this morning's pre-dawn
Halloween swim was pretty benign, and the five of us who suited up in the early morning darkness --
Carole Wickham, Joye Brown, Jimmy Kwong, Tony Alizzi and I -- had an eerily nice time! Unlike the hair-raising swims of last week, this morning there was absolutely no wind, the water was, well,
dead calm, the air temperature was a practically balmy 50 degrees, and the water, back up to 52-53 degrees, did not invoke the usual ear-splitting shrieks as it crept into our wetsuits...In honor of the occasion we wore bright orange Halloween caps, and Joye handed out glowsticks that made our floaty-bags glow like jack-o'-lanterns as we swam to the yellow sign and back. It was even warm enough to shower on the beach afterwards -- yes, the showers are still on! -- and then...
our last open-water swim of October 2013 was over....!
But November swimming begins tomorrow....See you in the Salt!
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| Jimmy and Tony |
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| "Boo!" |
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| Looks like there were some Halloween ghosts out there after all! |
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| Joye's floaty-bag glowing under the water |
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| Happy Halloween! |
No icy fingers reached up to grab our unsuspecting ankles and drag us soundlessly down to Davy Jones' locker... no bloated corpses leered up at us from the murky depths below...no sea monsters from the deep swallowed us whole...and we were not churned to mincemeat by the outboard motors of a deranged boat captain bent on mayhem....In fact, this morning's pre-dawn Halloween swim was pretty benign, and the five of us who suited up in the early morning darkness -- Carole Wickham, Joye Brown, Jimmy Kwong, Tony Alizzi and I -- had an eerily nice time! Unlike the hair-raising swims of last week, this morning there was absolutely no wind, the water was, well, dead calm, the air temperature was a practically balmy 50 degrees, and the water, back up to 52-53 degrees, did not invoke the usual ear-splitting shrieks as it crept into our wetsuits...In honor of the occasion we wore bright orange Halloween caps, and Joye handed out glowsticks that made our floaty-bags glow like jack-o'-lanterns as we swam to the yellow sign and back. It was even warm enough to shower on the beach afterwards -- yes, the showers are still on! -- and then...our last open-water swim of October 2013 was over....! 
Wow! I would have thought that the water would have been freezing! You're so brave! Last summer, my five sisters and I went on a vacation together and we stayed in a cabin at Lake Tahoe. The water there is beautiful and clean, but exceptionally freezing because it's all just melted snow water from the mountains. I loved being there, and it was a lot of fun swimming, but I had to get out and sun bathe all the time because it got so cold!
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Hi, Sophia! The water WAS freezing, but note that we were all wearing wetsuits as well as gloves and booties...which is what I'd be doing if I were swimming in the snow-melt of Lake Tahoe! So bravo to you and your sisters!
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