Ohio street July 25

What a difference! Jody and I decided to try Ohio Street today, mostly because that is the best place to check out water levels. The Lake really has risen several feet since last summer. In places the water, on a fairly calm day, is almost up to the path along the wall. We haven't seen this for several years. We forgot to check for activities, today was swim across america. We got there about an hour and a half before the start and had only a little extra trouble parking. We swam anyway as we would be done well before the race. The water was fine, a bit murky, calm except for the occasional boat wake, and 72. But between people arriving and setting up for the race, the usual early Saturday runners and the new, much needed, flyway construction, the area was mobbed with people. There was even a mob in the water, some warming up for the race and some, like us, just there for a swim. One nice thing was huge orange floats, belonging to big shoulders, marking the small distance buoys permanently there. We swam, of course, to the half mile marker and back.