Ohio Street, July 10

Strangely it is now easier to park on Sunday morning near the Ohio St. beach than near our Evanston beach. So Leo drove Jody and me down in his new Cadillac. One problem surfaced, what to do with his fancy electronic key. He planned to take the old fashion mechanical backup and leave the fancy key in the trunk, but Cadillac has a great feature- you can't accidentally lock your electronic key in the trunk, when you do that the doors automatically unlock. The problem is that you can't purposely lock your key in the trunk either. Eventually Leo gave up and had to leave his key in his pants by the bike racks. Fortunately lots of people leave lots of worthless stuff there while they swim so it is not an attractive place for thieves. The key was where he left it when we were done.

Not as great as yesterday but still pretty good. A hazy sun, air in 80's which made the 73 degree water feel colder at first. Still light winds but now from the south which will eventually cool down the lake. Water was not as clear, the shallow bottom was barely visible. At 6:30 we had the place pretty much to ourselves so a nice swim out. We were more ambitious and the swimming seemed easy so we went past the 1/2 mile buoy part way around the turn to Oak Street. We found that part of the easiness was that there was a small outbound current, so coming back, especially from the turn to the buoy, was tougher. It also got crowded around 7 and several fast wetsuited tri guys nearly ran us over. When we got out we saw Sue and Erin from last year getting ready to swim.

Overall a very good swim, not a perfect 10 but maybe a 9.