Evanston, July 4

Attendance at our annual 4th of July season beginning swim was sparse this morning due to a variety of personal reasons. Only Joe and I went to Evanston, thinking it would be cooler and we were not disappointed, we had a great swim. Even though we are in the middle of a heat wave and last night never did cool down, the Lake, given its infinite resource of cold water, was actually cooler today than last Sunday: it was 66. Given the air it felt even cooler than it was getting in but once in it felt great and only getting out back into the heat was a bummer. We did a wall to wall swim and could have gone farther but decided we did enough for the first official day. The water was smooth and clear with only some wind ripples in the light wind, Joe remarked that was actually smoother than our weekday swimming pool.