The Pinery, Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada, July 25

So I didn't get to swim in Chicago last weekend due to the storms but I got a nice dose of the Lake here in southwestern Ontario. There is something about the Lake on a Sunny, moderate day in the late afternoon that makes just being on the beach extremely comfortable. There was a very shallow slowly sloping bottom and 2 ft waves breaking far out and again and again as they came to shore. Not good for parallel swimming but OK for out and back. The water was 79. My 6 year old granddaughter has just learned to swim well enough to be comfortable in the surf and had a ball, as did her older brothers. Dinner in Grand Bend, overlooking the Lake and watching the sun go down. It was hard to see this as a lake, it seemed more like I was at a Mexican beach resort.

It has been pointed out that the connection between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron goes both ways so Lake Huron is actually just a segment of Lake Michigan, so this swim goes in the diary.