Swimming

The beach at the 'anchor house' was very swimmable.

The water was clear and it wasn't hard to float over the water plant band to get to weed-free swimming.

I wanted to try swimming between this beach and the dock by our house, about a 1/2 mile.

Around halfway between the two houses. Glen was taking the rowboat back to its home dock, so he spotted me for the swim. With all the boat traffic, a spotter was a necessity. Unfortunately, one of the oars broke, so he completed the trip by paddling with the other one. It was a slow way to go, but so is my swimming pace, so that was okay, just bothersome. Yes, I completed the whole distance in something around 45-50 minutes.

Several of us decided to do another lake swim late in the week.

We called it a swim flotilla: use whatever flotation device you wanted.

The participants were Anne, David, Joe, Roger, and Alan.

We couldn't have done it without our trusty spotters: Lisa, Jenny, and Glen. Jenny took the canoe.

Lisa used a kayak.

Glen chose the other kayak.

Alan got a bit of a tow from Jenny.

We swam across the wide inlet to the north of the beach, and then turned around and went back. The total distance was just under 1/2 mile. Roger got pretty chilled, but he did the whole thing.