Splash!

It had been about a week since I've been in the water. I think that the last time I've gone a week without being in a natural body of water or a swimming pool was probably sometime last November, in South Africa (because swimming with hippos is something you can do, Once).

Anyhow
It's a very-low wind day and the sea isa balmy 69°F (20ish °C). We were juuust about bestilled at 2.5kts so the rest of my crew very generously agreed to drop our limp foresail and keep an eye on me while I popped in to see if perchance we had a mahi underneath. We did not. Or we did, and I scared it away by jumping in. Either way: I got a chqnce to splash around in warm (for me) water that's a few hundred feet deep, very blue and clear, with no land in sight.

Why that last bit is so pleasing to me is a complete mystery but I do absolutely love the sense of being entirely aquatic: just me and the Blue.

I'm also pleased to confirm to myself that I can easily keep pace with the boat at ~1 knot (with fins). I'd like to try 2 or 3 and see how that goes. But also that doing a drop past a few yards is vaguely terrifying in that I can easily imagine the boat continuing on with me lost in the wake: yikes!

The swim felt fantastic and I emerged well rinsed in both body and soul.Baca lagi