What a great day today was: hot and not too windy. I had been watching the wind all day, kind of glad it was coming from the north because I like sailing out of the creek (with a southerly breeze we can sail into the creek, of course, but it gets a little temperamental up past the Crispy Condos*).But by the time our guests arrived, the wind had veered around to the southwest. We could almost sail close-hauled out to the Bay, but I left the engine going to help us get out faster.
Then off we went to the south and then toward the bridge. We were hot and once we made that little left to the east the wind was coming behind us enough to get us even hotter. A swim was definitely in order. We got through the bridge and managed to evade whatever that funk water is falling off the roadway construction. Part of me thinks it's really just water, but another part of me strongly believes that if it spilled on us our hair would fall out.
I expected the wind-shadow of the bridge to make a nice flat section for us to swim in. Not so much, though I guess I could have sneaked closer and closer to the bridge. Once we anchored it wasn't long before all four of us were in the water. It was so warm! We swam for an hour and even had a nice cold beer while we bobbed around.
We sailed back and managed to get pretty far up the creek under sail alone, but for some reason the program I used to track this didn't finish the recording even though it's supposed to keep working in the background.
*so named because of the fire one of the units had shortly after they opened.
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