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Sadly not the scolding 14 degrees I was hoping for today; instead a cooling 13.4 degrees. Also, as per the rest of the week, very windy and “huge” swells!
Not wanting to wimp out again, Shoichi and I headed out on our beach whilst the other headed for the girly beach. Oddly enough, due to the wind direction, the girly beach had bigger waves at the shore s very quickly the other lot were back on our beach. Shoichi and I got in fine, a bit of planning, but no problem and then we swam out to the first buoy. In these conditions it was a hell of a battle though and what usually takes about 3-4 minutes took about 15. The waves were all over the place and coming from the sides and the back and as such it was a case of being thrown around all over the place. Having got to the buoy it was then a quick turn around and heading back to shore. Shoichi, being a stronger swimmer than me, managed to swim against the tide back to the groin, which is a safer place to land because of the way the beach is set under the sea. Unfortunately for me I had to go where the tide took me, which was centre of our beach. Ultimately I got out fine, but it was quite hair raising and at one point I found myself able to stand too far out, which meant that the sea had quickly pulled out, which in turn meant a huge wave coming in. Sensing this I turned quickly and saw a massive (truly a wall of water) bearing down on me, it was so tall I couldn’t see the sky above it. All I could do, which is the safest thing, is dive through it and swim out to sea again. Having done that I then turned back to shore and swam at full pace until I hit the stones safely; each moment glancing behind me in case another one was coming. A swim not for the faint of heart!
All done and showered, Big Bob, Mike and I headed of to the Red Roaster for strong coffee and time to come down from the storm; then it was off to 
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