Diary 4

Date: Aug 10, 2005
Location: Cherry Beach, Toronto
Water Temp: 76 degrees
Conditions: Windy - Quite Choppy

Arrived and first looked out for Swans. There was one in the harbour area digging for bugs between it's feathers... nasty rotten water fowl! Dove in planning to do 4km; 1000m west, return and repeat.

Fighting the wave heading west is always tough on at Cherry Beach. I kept fairly close to the shore and could see the bottom below at all times. There are some dense weedy sections but otherwise, the bottom is covered in this lovely green moss like stuff (?); lovely to touch. I usually don't see much life down there, but today, there seemed to be fish (small and larger) everywhere.

Ran into a huge patch of weeds just floating freely. Freaked me out, but just kept swimming through it and then focused on recovering from my freaked out state.

Worked with 50 strokes with full supporting kick, 20 strokes w/ a 2 beat kick.

Worked with breathing every 5th stroke for 100 strokes and 100 strokes with 3 breathes (normal).

Saw a huge, but dead, fish laying on the bottom. Wonder why it died? Hope it's not the water. Or even worst, hope it wasn't a larger fish! - Strange the things that go through your head while open water swimming.