Evanston, August 28

Our outdoor pool was closed again today so once again I decided to try Evanston just to check conditions. There was no wind but there were 3 foot swells. The nice thing about swells rather than wind waves is that the water was locally smooth past the break zone, so swimming was not bad.

The water was a warm, relative to the last two weeks, 62, just as I expected. I swam about 20 minutes using a thermal cap and could have swum longer.