Evanston, September 20

Our swim last weekend was postponed due to pacific tropical storm Lowell and hurricane Ike which dumped lots of water on our area. Much of that water found its way into the Lake in the form of sewage. Also many of us, myself in particular, were occupied with storm cleanup.

I probably would have just let the season end but Joe wanted to go again, so, there being no other volunteers, he and I went. We got to the Lake before the sun was actually up, although it was light enough to swim. So we were favored by a nice sunrise. The air was cool but the Lake was still 66 which is warm for this time of year. It was calm near shore with only some 2 inch back waves, i.e. waves opposite the wind direction. Further out were some ripples and by the wall there were some actual 1ft waves, but they were pretty harmless. Overall we couldn't have hoped for better conditions.

Is this the end? Maybe, but stay tuned another week.