Rainy day at the beach

If you are like me and you love the beach because of the water, the smell of the salt and being just at peace when you are by the sand whether its rain, hail or shine (well maybe not hail), any weather is good to be by the beach. As long as you are not caught out in the currents in a dangerous situation if you have time to be by the water the weather isn’t a pre-requisite for being at the beach.

All week the weather has been great but starting today the weather has turned for the worse. Lots of rain, thunder and the air temperature started at about 12 degrees and has moved to about 15 (still pretty cold). However this crappy weather didn’t stop the usual cheerful folk who usually swim every morning. When I got to the beach there was only one person there. I thought that it might be a quiet day today seeing as it was really cold but sure enough the usual suspects started to make their way to the beach and do their daily swim.

Some of the guys swam for shorter times because the water was pretty cold, between 18 – 19 degrees depending on where you are in the rock pools but I managed to get my 2 laps x 60m underwater and then proceeded to do the 18 laps x 30m underwater. I was in the water for about 1hr in total taking into consideration safety breathe up breaks between each underwater swim.

The swell was pretty bad and it looks like diving tomorrow will be canceled unless there is a massive turn around in the weather. Rough seas, zero visibility and no company is all enough reason to not go this weekend. I might replace the dive with a long distance run in the rain though, nice way to get some distance running in there and get cooled off automatically while im running 🙂 I love running in the rain, its really fun and soothing.

Anyway photo of the sea above, not everyday is a sunny day at the beach as this picture shows but everyday is certainly a good day to be a the beach whether its rain or shine !