Evanston September 6

We planned to swim Tuesday and Thursday but Jody returned from her Labor day vacation with a cold and the swimming conditions were not good for Evanston anyway. She's better, conditions not so much but enough for a quick swim just to loosen up for tomorrow's race. We got to the Lake the same time as last week but it was noticeably darker, just a red glow to the east. Light enough to see that the water was still pretty rough. Jody was ready to go right home but when we realized the water was fairly warm, 70, she decided to swim. The outbound (northbound) swim was fairly easy, we went past the halfway mark and decided that it was far enough for today. It did not seem at all windy but a moderate south wind had been predicted and that was enough to make the return swim much more difficult, now we noticed the chop on top of the 2.5 foot swells. We did stop and tread water, or at least I did -- Jody floats, and watch the sunrise. Being out in the Lake is like having front row seats, only the waves kept standing up in front of us. After terribly long preliminaries the sun suddenly popped out of the water like a beach ball. Awesome. A fun swim after all.