Evanston, September 15

Surfs up! It wasn't clear from the weather reports what we should expect today. It certainly was cloudy and cool with air temperatures in the 60's. Even looking at the lake it didn't seem that bad, we couldn't decide on
whether to do a regular swim up the lake (from our regular beach) or an out and back swim. Once we were actually in the water, it felt warmer than Tuesday because the air-water differential was less but the water actually was 2 degrees cooler at 65, we opted for out and back. We made the right decision as when we got 10 minutes out the waves seemed to be about 6 footers and the swimming got quite rough. So we turned back and swam in with the waves. It felt faster but Ken had his watch running and and said we were actually a minute slower.

Back near shore we tried body surfing but Mike, the Maui surfing expert, characterized the conditions as "shitty". We each did get one or two small rides for our efforts. As we walked back to the car one of the workmen on the sewer project, they are in the process of cleaning up their mess, commented that we must be freezing to death but we just smiled and told him, truthfully, that it was warmer in the lake than out here.